postgraduate
[pohst-graj-oo-it, -eyt]
- of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
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- a student who is taking advanced work after graduation, as from a high school or college.
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Origin of postgraduate
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Examples from the Web for postgraduate
Contemporary Examples
During the 1990s, however, he went abroad again to finish his postgraduate studies at Glasgow Caledonian University.
In the Northeast, spring is in the air, and at Ivy League schools, kids are planning their postgraduate futures.
Bridgewater May Be the Hottest Hedge Fund for Harvard Grads, but It’s Also the WeirdestDaniel Gross
March 7, 2013
She said she might someday go for her postgraduate degree, but she also wants to start several businesses.
I went to Andover with Belichick in the 1970s (he was there for a postgraduate year while I was kept prisoner for four years).
(This may reflect the decided 58-40 pro-Obama tilt of professors, lawyers, teachers, and others with postgraduate degrees).
Historical Examples
I am overjoyed that you are to take the postgraduate course.
Molly Brown's Post-Graduate DaysNell Speed
"Thank you," returned the postgraduate, with the true Blount smile.
The Honorable Senator Sage-BrushFrancis Lynde
The man who can do this may be said to have passed his postgraduate examination as a first-class coachman.
Riding and DrivingEdward L. Anderson
After this he seemed to have spent some time at postgraduate work in Vienna, especially in mathematics under Johann von Gmnden.
The Century of ColumbusJames J. Walsh
Every Wellington girl who comes back for the postgraduate 180 course gives me a compliment better than a gift of jewels.
Molly Brown's Post-Graduate DaysNell Speed
postgraduate
- 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
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Also (US and Canadian): graduate
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