Word Study
postgraduate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun postgraduate has 1 sense
- postgraduate(n = noun.person) grad student, graduate student - a student who continues studies after graduation; Array is a kind of college boy, college man, collegian
Derived form adjective postgraduate1
Adjective postgraduate has 1 sense
- postgraduate(s = adj.all) graduate - of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree; "graduate courses" Derived form noun postgraduate1
CIDE DICTIONARY
postgraduate, a. [Pref. post- + graduate.].
Of, pertaining to, or designating, the studies pursued after graduation, esp., after receiving the bachelor's degree at a college; graduate.
" Most careful writers consider the word graduate to be the proper word to use in this sense."
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
postgraduate, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 (of a course of study) carried on after taking a first degree.
2 of or relating to students following this course of study (postgraduate accommodation).
--n. a postgraduate student.
--adj.
1 (of a course of study) carried on after taking a first degree.
2 of or relating to students following this course of study (postgraduate accommodation).
--n. a postgraduate student.
THESAURUS
postgraduate
academic, alumna, alumnae, alumni, alumnus, autodidactic, bookish, college graduate, college man, college-bred, collegiate, cross-disciplinary, degrees, doctoral candidate, educated class, educated man, grad, graduate, graduate student, graduate-professional, interdisciplinary, learned, meritocracy, pedagogical, professional, scholarly, scholastic, schoolboyish, schoolgirlish, schoolish, sophomoric, studentlike, studious, undergraduate
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