postgraduate

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: post=grad=u=ate

CIDE DICTIONARY

postgraduate, 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.
" Most careful writers consider the word graduate to be the proper word to use in this sense."  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

postgraduate, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 (of a course of study) carried on after taking a first degree.
2 of or relating to students following this course of study (postgraduate accommodation).
--n. a postgraduate student.

THESAURUS

postgraduate

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