alumna:

(plural: alumnae; pronunciation: the letters ‘ae’ in the plural form rhyme with the letters ‘ee’ in “bee” — for the right pronunciation, please click here)

an alumna (just completed her degree)

a female (woman) student who has completed her graduation course;

a former female (girl/woman) student of a school, college or university, i.e. a student who completed her education from a certain school, college or university some time ago,

Hollywood actress Jennifer Connolly, an alumna of Yale University

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An alumna of St. Mary’s College for Women has posted an invitation on her blog inviting all the alumnae of the college to send in their email ID’s and mobile numbers to her so that she can form a community and all the old friends can get in touch with one another.

Language usage: ‘Alumnus’ and ‘alumna’ both come from Latin and still have Latin plurals. ‘Alumnus’ is a male (masculine — boy or man) noun whose plural is “alumni“, and ‘alumna’ is a female (feminine — girl or woman) noun whose plural is alumnae. Some coeducational institutions, where both male and female students study together, usually use “alumni” for graduates of both sexes. But women educational institutions that do not like to use (masculine) male forms in such cases may use the phrase alumni and alumnae or the form alumnae/i. And according to www.dictionary30.com, the term ‘almn’, with ‘almns’ as its plural form, is used for either ‘an alumna’ or ‘an alumnus’.

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