postdoctoral

1. 1.

   a grant that funds postdoctoral study or research

   Synonymspostdocpost doc

   Broadergrant-in-aid

1. 1.

   of or relating to study or research that is done after work for the doctoral degree has been completed

Other forms of postdoctoral

plural

postdoctorals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about postdoctoral

What does postdoctoral mean?

postdoctoral means "a grant that funds postdoctoral study or research". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in postdoctoral?

postdoctoral has 4 syllables: post-doc-to-ral. The stress falls on "doc". In IPA it is /ˌpoʊstˈdɑkˌtɝəl/.

What is another word for postdoctoral?

Close synonyms include postdoc, post doc. 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 postdoctoral a common word?

postdoctoral 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.