Definition of Postgraduate

1. Noun. A student who continues studies after graduation.

Exact synonyms: Grad Student, Graduate Student
Generic synonyms: College Boy, College Man, Collegian

2. Adjective. Of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree. "Graduate courses"
Exact synonyms: Graduate
Similar to: High

Definition of Postgraduate

1. a. Of, pertaining to, or designating, the studies pursued after graduation, esp., after receiving the bachelor's degree at a college; graduate.

Definition of Postgraduate

1. Noun. A person continuing to study in a field after having successfully completed a degree course. ¹

2. Adjective. Those studies which take place after having successfully completed a degree course. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Postgraduate

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Postgraduate

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postgirls
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postglomerular
postgrad
postgrads
postgraduate (current term)
postgraduates
postgraduation
postgrunge
posthardcore
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posthearing
postheat
postheats
posthegemony
posthemorrhagic
postheroic
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Literary usage of Postgraduate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Medical education in the United States and Canada: a report to the Carnegie by Abraham Flexner (1910)
"i The postgraduate school was thus originally an undergraduate repair shop. Its instruction was necessarily at once elementary and practical. ..."

2. Education for Business by Leverett Samuel Lyon (1922)
"CHAPTER XX postgraduate COMMERCIAL COURSES, SUPERVISION AND TEACHER TRAINING In this chapter we shall give some consideration to a number of matters which ..."

3. Education for Business by Leverett Samuel Lyon (1922)
"CHAPTER XX postgraduate COMMERCIAL COURSES, SUPERVISION AND TEACHER TRAINING In this chapter we shall give some consideration to a number of matters which ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"... OF SURGERY AT NEW YORK postgraduate MEDICAL SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL. THE object of this paper is to review the literature pertaining to obstructive jaundice ..."

5. The Medical Clinics of North America by Richard J. Havel, K. Patrick Ober (1917)
"ARTHUR F. CHACE postgraduate MEDICAL SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL DIET IN INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS Demonstration of Different Forms of Diet. ..."

6. Calcutta Review by University of Calcutta (1844)
"Although not more than 5 per cent of our total student population study at the postgraduate stage, it is something like the 'Brain Trust' of our intelectual ..."

7. Bulletin by Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (1904)
"... postgraduate Training* By JAS RITSON, OBE, DSO, MC, Member Mr. SE Willows-Munro : In South Africa, a well-established approach to the mining engineering ..."

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