magna cum laude

1. 1.

   with high honor; with high academic distinction

   “a magna cum laude graduate”

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1. 1.

   with high honor

   “he graduated magna cum laude”

Questions about magna cum laude

What does magna cum laude mean?

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

Is magna cum laude a common word?

magna cum laude 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.