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In this sentence: 苦学し、何浪もして東大に合格, I can't find the meaning? WhenI search up 浪
via Japanese dictionary, it says 'waves' and 苦学 is 'paying one's own school
expenses by working​'.
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What does 苦学 and 何浪 mean in this sentence?
苦学する has a second
[meaning](https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/%E8%8B%A6%E5%AD%A6): "to study under
adversity"

何浪も means being/doing many times 浪人(it is constructed with the same structure
that 何回も("many times").

[浪人](https://jisho.org/search/%E6%B5%AA%E4%BA%BA) means "waiting for another
chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance
examination​" (it can refer to the action or to the person doing this action)

So「苦学し、何浪もして東大に合格」means "Succeed to enter Toudai by studying under adversity
and being rounin many times."
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