postgraduate

See also: post-graduate

English

Etymology

From post- +‎ graduate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpəʊstˈɡɹædju.ət/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

postgraduate (plural postgraduates)

1. A person continuing to study in a field after having successfully completed a degree course.

Synonyms

• postgrad
• graduate student (Canada, US)
• PG (abbreviation, India)

Translations

a person continuing to study after completing a degree

• Armenian: ասպիրանտ (hy) (aspirant)
• Bulgarian: аспирант m (aspirant), докторант m (doktorant)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 研究生 (zh) (yánjiūshēng)

• Finnish: jatko-opiskelija (fi)
• Greek: μεταπτυχιακός φοιτητής m (metaptychiakós foititís)
• Hindi: स्नातकोत्तर (hi) m (snātkottar)
• Hungarian: PhD-hallgató, doktorandusz (hu)
• Irish: iarchéimí m
• Japanese: 院生 (ja) (いんせい, insei), 研究生 (ja) (けんきゅうせい, kenkyūsei), 大学院生 (ja) (だいがくいんせい, daigakuinsei)
• Korean: 원생(院生) (ko) (wonsaeng)
• Macedonian: постдипло́мец m (postdiplómec)
• Malay: pascasiswazah (ms)
• Portuguese: pós-graduando (pt) m
• Russian: аспира́нт (ru) m (aspiránt), аспира́нтка (ru) f (aspirántka)
• Scottish Gaelic: for-cheumnaiche m
• Spanish: postgraduado m, estudiante de postgrado m or f
• Swedish: forskarstuderande (sv) c, doktorand (sv) c
• Uyghur: ئاسپىرانت (aspirant)
• Yiddish: אַספּיראַנט m (aspirant), אַספּיראַנטקע f (aspirantke)

Adjective

postgraduate (not comparable)

1. Of studies which take place after having successfully completed a degree course.
   • 2020 June 23, Ushma S. Neill, “The hidden health cost of Trump’s visa freeze”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     In May, a proclamation was issued specifically targeting Chinese nationals and denying them F and J visas used to attend graduate and postgraduate programs in the US. Trump’s new action suspends the issuance of new visas H-1B visas for professional workers; H-2Bs for non-agricultural seasonal workers, J-1s for cultural exchanges and L-1s for intracompany transfers.

Antonyms

• pregraduate
• undergraduate

Descendants

• → Dutch: postgraduaat

Translations

of studies taking place after completing a degree

• Armenian: ասպիրանտական (hy) (aspirantakan)
• Bulgarian: следдипломен (sleddiplomen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 研究生的 (yánjiūshēng de)

• Czech: ^{(please verify)} postgraduální
• Finnish: jatko-opinto-
• German: Aufbau-, Graduierten-, Doktoranden-, weiterführend (de), postgradual, nach dem Hochschulabschluss (postpositioned)
• Greek: μεταπτυχιακός (el) m (metaptychiakós)
• Hindi: स्नातकोत्तर (hi) m (snātkottar)
• Hungarian: posztgraduális (hu)
• Indonesian: pascasarjana (id)
• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} постдипло́мски (postdiplómski)
• Malay: pascasiswazah (ms)
• Russian: ^{(please verify)} аспира́нтский (ru) (aspirántskij), послеву́зовский (ru) (poslevúzovskij)
• Spanish: postgraduado, de postgrado
• Vietnamese: cao học (vi)

Derived terms

• postgrad