summa cum laude

1. 1.

   with highest honor; with the highest academic distinction

   “a summa cum laude graduate”

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1. 1.

   with highest honor

   “he graduated summa cum laude”

Questions about summa cum laude

What does summa cum laude mean?

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

Is summa cum laude a common word?

summa 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.