Postgraduate

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Postgraduate \Post*grad"u*ate\, 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. -- n. A student who pursues such studies.
  
     Note: Most careful writers consider the word graduate to be


           the proper word to use in this sense.
           [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  postgraduate
       adj : of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree;
             "graduate courses" [syn: {graduate(a)}]
       n : a student who continues studies after graduation [syn: {graduate
           student}, {grad student}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  34 Moby Thesaurus words for "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