| rdfs:comment | - Latin for "nourishing mother." Derives from the full name ("Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna") of the oldest European university, the University of Bologna (founded in the eleventh century, in year 1088).
- The expression is almost always used in the singular form, but the Latin plural is almae matres. Alma mater is not a generally used term in Britain as it is in the United States, the terms "school" and "university" being preferred. For this reason, if in Britain you are asked "where did you go to school" you are not being asked which university you went to, but which school, e.g. Eton, you went to. At Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, the main student government is known as the Alma Mater Society.
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| abstract | - The expression is almost always used in the singular form, but the Latin plural is almae matres. Alma mater is not a generally used term in Britain as it is in the United States, the terms "school" and "university" being preferred. For this reason, if in Britain you are asked "where did you go to school" you are not being asked which university you went to, but which school, e.g. Eton, you went to. Alma Mater Studiorum ("Nourishing Mother of Studies") is the name of the University of Bologna, the oldest continually operating university in the world, and other European universities, such as the Alma Mater Lipsiensis in Leipzig, Germany, or Alma Mater Jagiellonica, Poland, have also used the expression in their names. At Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, the main student government is known as the Alma Mater Society.
- Latin for "nourishing mother." Derives from the full name ("Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna") of the oldest European university, the University of Bologna (founded in the eleventh century, in year 1088).
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