postgraduate

Other forms of postgraduate

plural

postgraduates·

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 postgraduate

What does postgraduate mean?

postgraduate means "a student who continues studies after graduation". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in postgraduate?

postgraduate has 4 syllables: post-gra-du-ate. The stress falls on "gra".

What is another word for postgraduate?

Close synonyms include graduate student, grad student, graduate. 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 postgraduate a common word?

postgraduate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.