postgraduate

[pohst-graj-oo-it, -eyt]

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adjective

of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.

noun

a student who is taking advanced work after graduation, as from a high school or college.

Origin of postgraduate

First recorded in 1855–60; post- + graduate

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Examples from the Web for post-graduate

Contemporary Examples

Belia, who has a post-graduate degree, makes a little less than that as a head mistress at a private school.
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December 22, 2013
For all its problems, the U.S. higher education system—especially the post-graduate education system—is the best in the world.
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Historical Examples

They may enter the post-graduate department of Yale and receive its degrees.
The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV
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“You have finished your post-graduate work, I expect,” said Stenhouse.
The Pools of Silence
H. de Vere Stacpoole
It should be called almost a post-graduate course in the camp studies.
How Girls Can Help Their Country
Juliette Low
The post-graduate course commences April 2d, and ends May 25th.
Work for Women
George J. Manson
He had had a post-graduate course in the South-East Asian jungles.
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John Joseph McGuire

British Dictionary definitions for post-graduate

postgraduate

noun

a student who has obtained a degree from a university, etc, and is pursuing studies for a more advanced qualification
(modifier) of or relating to such a student or to his studies

Also (US and Canadian): graduate

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Word Origin and History for post-graduate

adj.

also postgraduate, 1858, originally American English, from post- + graduate (adj.). As a noun, attested from 1890. Abbreviation post-grad is recorded from 1950.

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Examples from the Web for post-graduate

Contemporary Examples

Belia, who has a post-graduate degree, makes a little less than that as a head mistress at a private school.

For all its problems, the U.S. higher education system—especially the post-graduate education system—is the best in the world.

Historical Examples

They may enter the post-graduate department of Yale and receive its degrees.

“You have finished your post-graduate work, I expect,” said Stenhouse.

It should be called almost a post-graduate course in the camp studies.

The post-graduate course commences April 2d, and ends May 25th.

He had had a post-graduate course in the South-East Asian jungles.

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Word Origin and History for post-graduate

adj.

Origin of postgraduate