postdoctoral

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pós

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *pósti

Proto-Italic *posti

Old Latin poste

Latin post

English post-

English doctoral

English postdoctoral

From post- + doctoral.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pəʊs(t)ˈdɒkt(ə)r(ə)l/
• Hyphenation: post‧doc‧tor‧al

Adjective

postdoctoral (not comparable)

1. After receiving a doctorate; especially of academic research or study beyond the level of a doctoral degree.
   • 2001 August 21, Jennifer 8. Lee, “Postdoc Trail: Long and Filled With Pitfalls”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     When Dr. Michael Dugan took his first postdoctoral research appointment in 1985, he considered it a steppingstone to a permanent theoretical physics post on a college faculty.

Hypernyms

• doctoral

Derived terms

• postdoctorally

Translations

after receiving a doctorate

• French: postdoctoral (fr)
• Georgian: პოსტსადოქტორო (ṗosṭsadokṭoro), პოსტ-სადოქტორო (ṗosṭ-sadokṭoro)
• German: Postdoc-
• Greek: μεταδιδακτορικός (el) m (metadidaktorikós)
• Hebrew: פוסט־דוקטורט m (post-doktorát), בתר־דוקטורט (batár-doktorát)
• Japanese: 学位取得後の (gakui shutoku go no), 博士課程修了後の (hakushi katei shūryō go no)
• Portuguese: pós-doutoral m or f
• Tibetan: འབུམ་རམས་པ་ཕྱི་མའི ('bum rams pa phyi ma'i)
• Turkish: doktora sonrası

Noun

postdoctoral (plural postdoctorals)

1. Synonym of postdoc.

Spanish

Alternative forms

• posdoctoral

Adjective

postdoctoral m or f (masculine and feminine plural postdoctorales)

1. postdoctoral

Further reading

• Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “postdoctoral”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA