higher national diploma

1. 1.

   a diploma given for vocational training that prepares the student for a career in a particular area; good students may progress to a course leading to a degree

   SynonymsHND

   Broaderdiploma

   United Kingdom

Questions about higher national diploma

What does higher national diploma mean?

higher national diploma means "a diploma given for vocational training that prepares the student for a career in a particular area; good students may progress to a course leading to a degree".

What is another word for higher national diploma?

Close synonyms include HND. 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 higher national diploma a common word?

higher national diploma 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.