Other forms: postgraduates
A postgraduate is a student who already holds a first degree and studies on. A postgraduate course, postgraduate students, go on to postgraduate work.
Britain uses the word for both the person and the study; America says graduate student and graduate school for the same thing, which confuses applicants in both directions. Taught and research are the two kinds.
1nounpostgraduateA student who already holds a first degree and studies on.
“She's a postgraduate doing research on climate change.”
postgraduate is a student.
Also accepted in games: graduate student, grad student
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From post- + graduate. post comes from Middle English post, from Old English post. Middle English post, from Old English post (“pillar, door-post”) and Old French post (“post, upright beam”), both from Latin postis (“door, post, doorpost”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA