[syn: graduate(a), postgraduate]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
postgraduate
adj 1: of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree;
"graduate courses" [syn: graduate(a), postgraduate]
n 1: a student who continues studies after graduation [syn:
graduate student, grad student, postgraduate]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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