Find the word definition

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
post-graduate

also postgraduate, 1858, originally American English, from post- + graduate (adj.). As a noun, attested from 1890. Abbreviation post-grad is recorded from 1950.

Usage examples of "post-graduate".

My son was at this time just entering on the post-graduate studies leading to his resent professorship, and we worked together a great deal.

He was educated in a little town of the south of France, made his medical studies at Montpellier, and then went on a journey of hundreds of miles into Italy, in order to make his post-graduate studies.

Miss Lonelyhearts was just about as far as I could go in that first post-graduate summer.

The alarming possibility of having his post-graduate grant discontinued on the grounds that he was an ungrateful subversive loomed up in Donald's mind.