Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A graduate of a school or college.
- noun A student studying for a graduate degree, such as a PhD.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A graduate.
- noun An abbreviation of the Latin gradatim, by degrees.
- noun In petrography, in the quantitative system of classification (1902) (see
rock ), a division of igneous rocks lower than the subrang.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Short form of
graduate . - noun Short form of
graduation . - abbreviation
gradian
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one-hundredth of a right angle
- noun a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)
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Examples
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Paul and I still have what we call grad school furniture: a cat-hair covered Ikea couch, my futon from before we lived together, his dead grandfather's recliner, my mom's old dinette set.
Arroyo Vista Noria Jablonski 2008
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Paul and I still have what we call grad school furniture: a cat-hair covered Ikea couch, my futon from before we lived together, his dead grandfather's recliner, my mom's old dinette set.
Arroyo Vista 2008
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One of my best friends in grad school was a Mormon, too.
Garett the Gracious, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The long academic selection process that runs a decade or more (time in grad school + pre-tenure positions) effectively weeds out anyone who won't follow the prevailing winds of academia.
Two Cowenian Tenure Claims, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Getting the first one done in grad school taught me I could do it.
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They gave me first prize when I was in grad school; the next winner could be you!
More Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I wrote this and this back in grad school, for a Christmas skit that never was.
At Least They Beat Christmas Carols, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Another reason that macro does not work in grad school is that studying macro is like studying polio -- the serious problem of long-term macroeconomic distress has been eradicated.
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| Reply this made me laugh. i had to take several linguistics courses in grad school and never had a clue what to write for my papers that were supposed to be on “my field of interest.” my field of interest felt so distant from linguistics!
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Thanks for your comments about depression in grad school.
So Larry Summers was Right?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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