graduate student

1. 1.

   a student who continues studies after graduation

   Synonymsgrad studentpostgraduate

   Broadercollegian

Questions about graduate student

What does graduate student mean?

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

What is another word for graduate student?

Close synonyms include grad 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 graduate student a common word?

graduate 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.