postgraduate

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

/ poʊstˈgrædʒ u ɪt, -ˌeɪt /

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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.

RELATED WORDS

alum, alumna

Nearby words

postganglionic, postganglionic motor neuron, postgastrectomy syndrome, postglacial, postgrad, postgraduate, posthaste, postheat, posthepatitic cirrhosis, posthioplasty, posthitis

Origin of postgraduate

First recorded in 1855–60; post- + graduate

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Examples from the Web for postgraduate

During the 1990s, however, he went abroad again to finish his postgraduate studies at Glasgow Caledonian University.
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In the Northeast, spring is in the air, and at Ivy League schools, kids are planning their postgraduate futures.
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She said she might someday go for her postgraduate degree, but she also wants to start several businesses.
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I went to Andover with Belichick in the 1970s (he was there for a postgraduate year while I was kept prisoner for four years).
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(This may reflect the decided 58-40 pro-Obama tilt of professors, lawyers, teachers, and others with postgraduate degrees).
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The postgraduate may play the game using as counters the great and distinctive cheeses of more than fifty countries.
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It is hoped that these repeated examinations may lead to the continuation of such habits of bodily care in postgraduate years.
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After this he seemed to have spent some time at postgraduate work in Vienna, especially in mathematics under Johann von Gmnden.
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In fact she was merely taking a postgraduate course in certain studies.
The Mission of Janice Day|Helen Beecher Long
The man who can do this may be said to have passed his postgraduate examination as a first-class coachman.
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British Dictionary definitions for postgraduate

postgraduate

/ (pəʊstˈɡrædjʊɪt) /

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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