grad student

1. 1.

   a student who continues studies after graduation

   Synonymsgraduate studentpostgraduate

   Broadercollegian

Questions about grad student

What does grad student mean?

grad student means "a student who continues studies after graduation".

What is another word for grad student?

Close synonyms include graduate student, postgraduate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is grad student a common word?

grad student is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.