2006-12-11 23:05:17 · 10 answers · asked by colin050659 6 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
I think you mean 'alma mater', which is the school or university you used to go to.
As in, 'Ah, Oxford, my alma mater'
And that gets two thumbs down why?
2006-12-11 23:07:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
An "Alma mater" is a place or school u once attended or graduated from AND can be found on their records as proof for the particular years u claimed to have attended.
2006-12-11 23:10:53 · answer #2 · answered by papabeartex 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Alma Mater
Usually refers to one's college
2006-12-11 23:06:53 · answer #3 · answered by Chief BaggageSmasher 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
"Alma mater" is a term of academia.It is Latin for "Nourishing Mother" It is used less frequently than formerly in the English language as a sobriquet for the university or college a person has attended.
2006-12-11 23:14:32 · answer #4 · answered by the gunners 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Alma-Mater
is the school that you attended and graduated from.
2006-12-12 00:26:16 · answer #5 · answered by emilo 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Gosh ... 6 times wrong or incomplete answers again ...
I presume what you are looking for is "Alma Matar" and that means somethig as like as "the nourishing mother" in Church believed to be the mother of God ...
Matar is "mother" and alma is kinda similar to "nourishment", but not in a sense of food, much more in a sense of "lifeblood".
So the alma matar is kind of the mother who gives life (that's why church says, the mother of God) But we can interprete giving life as giving nourishment, too.
If a professor calls his university Alma Matar (They sometimes do) then he literally means, that the university is the place that gives him his life (his sense of life), spiritually as well as the money he needs for his living.
That's it briefly
2006-12-11 23:13:00 · answer #6 · answered by jhstha 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Alma Mater: the school one went to (could be high school or college).
2006-12-11 23:07:56 · answer #7 · answered by Von Kempelen 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
in south africa it is spelled ALMA MATER. it usually refers to the unviersity you attended.
2006-12-12 22:36:11 · answer #8 · answered by Kuschke 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
alma mater
2006-12-11 23:09:30 · answer #9 · answered by K-Deeznuts 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
alma mater
The school from which one has graduated,
2006-12-11 23:06:36 · answer #10 · answered by Ruthie Baby 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋