Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or pursuing advanced study after graduation from high school or college.
- noun One who is engaged in postgraduate study.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Belonging or relating to or prosecuting a course of study pursued after graduation: as, postgraduate lectures; a postgraduate course of study; a postgraduate student.
- noun A graduate; one studying after graduation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, the studies pursued after graduation, esp., after receiving the bachelor's degree at a college; graduate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US, Australia, New Zealand A
person continuing tostudy in afield after having successfully completed adegree course . - adjective Those studies which take place after having successfully completed a
degree course .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree
- noun a student who continues studies after graduation
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But postgraduate is actually better established than these pre - words.
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Because postgraduate is so often used interchangeably with graduate, it would be unrealistic to insist that the two must be different and that postgraduate means what you and I think it does (what it should!).
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Because postgraduate is so often used interchangeably with graduate, it would be unrealistic to insist that the two must be different and that postgraduate means what you and I think it does (what it should!).
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But postgraduate is actually better established than these pre - words.
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I also recall my visits to the ranch in the years of 1958 and 1959, a postgraduate from the Soviet Union, a Jack London student of Moscow State University and UC-Berkeley, together with Vice-Chancellor of the University James Hart and famous literary scholar Franklin Walker.
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It is possible to register as a one-year or one-term postgraduate student not reading for a degree.
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Baudrillard reminds me of a very dark period in my life called my postgraduate year.
Lest we forget Johnny Guitar 2007
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Baudrillard reminds me of a very dark period in my life called my postgraduate year.
Archive 2007-03-01 Johnny Guitar 2007
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It is important to note that in the past school term, 1,506 teachers took some kind of postgraduate course.
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Here we saw the Bishop and a number of novice priests receiving instruction, taking, I imagine, a kind of postgraduate course.
Travels in the Far East Ellen Mary Hayes Peck
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