alma mater

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   your alma mater is a school you graduated from

   Broaderschool

Questions about alma mater

What does alma mater mean?

alma mater means "your alma mater is a school you graduated from".

Is alma mater a common word?

alma mater is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.