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post-ˈgraduate, a. (n.) orig. U.S.
[f. post- B. 1 b + graduate.]
A. adj. Pertaining or relating to a course of study carried on after graduation. Also, spec. with reference to a second or further degree. Also transf. and fig.
1858N. York Tribune 12 Nov. 5/5 Forming a portion of the Post-Graduate Course of Columbia College. 1886Lowell Wks. (1890) VI. 168 Special and advanced courses should be pushed on into the post-graduate period. 1900Dialect Notes II. 48 P.G. i.e. post-graduate, or pretty girl, n. 1. A post-graduate student. 2. A pretty girl. 1901Daily Chron. 15 Oct. 4/3 A new building in connection with the Post-Graduate College, of the West London Hospital. 1931J. van Dernoot (title) Postgraduate contract bridge: advanced points for advanced players. 1952A. Huxley Let. 12 Oct. (1969) 657 Let it be a post-graduate school. 1955Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxiv. 30 Only after they [sc. amateur adult criminals] have been exposed to the postgraduate curriculum of prison life do a few of them make possible recruits for the ranks of the professionals. 1965Nursing Times 5 Feb. p. lxii (Advt.), Post-graduate nurses... Applications invited for this course from S.R.N.s..and Enrolled Nurses. 1974Times 31 Jan. 3/2 Strong criticism of proposals to give loans to postgraduate students to supplement state grants. 1975Language for Life (Dept. Educ. & Sci.) xxiii. 338 A form of teacher training which has shown a considerable expansion in recent years is the one-year course for graduates, leading to a post-graduate certificate of education. 1978Time 3 July 48/1 Beatty is also a health-food enthusiast and, as Nichols notes, ‘a postgraduate hypochondriac’.
B. n. A student who takes a post-graduate course, or continues his studies after graduation. Also transf., and loosely, one who has received a higher degree.
1890in Cent. Dict. 1900Congress. Rec. 19 Feb. 1917/1 Now, the Senator is a senior, a post-graduate of great distinction of the academy of which he is now a member. 1904M. E. Waller Wood-Carver of 'Lympus 178 Marking out the work for the post-graduates..has filled my time. 1932Daily Express 20 Sept. 7/2 Able young post-graduates in America..have a love of knowledge. 1959New Statesman 23 May 730/2 There is the ‘grand tour’ of the post-graduate, working off his money at the end of a year at Harvard or Princeton. 1972Daily Tel. 22 Sept. 3/7 It..was the brainchild of John Fauvel, 24, a postgraduate in mathematics. 1975Physics Bull. Mar. 129/3 By issuing in both cased and paperback editions, Macmillan have ensured that post⁓graduates should be able to afford it.
Hence post-graduˈation.
1920H. Crane Let. 14 Apr. (1965) 37 His last letter told of splenetic days following his post-graduation from Columbia. |