cum laude

1. 1.

   with honor; with academic distinction

   “a cum laude graduate”

   Similarworthy

1. 1.

   with honor

   “he graduated cum laude”

Questions about cum laude

What does cum laude mean?

cum laude means "with honor; with academic distinction". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is cum laude a common word?

cum laude is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.