GRADUATE STUDENT

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does graduate student mean? 

• GRADUATE STUDENT (noun)
  The noun GRADUATE STUDENT has 1 sense:

1. a student who continues studies after graduation

  Familiarity information: GRADUATE STUDENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRADUATE STUDENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A student who continues studies after graduation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

grad student; graduate student; postgraduate

Hypernyms ("graduate student" is a kind of...):

college boy; college man; collegian (a student (or former student) at a college or university)

 Context examples 

Adding extra zinc accelerated the switch—but not when we reduced the accumulation of Shank 2 or 3, explains Dr. Huong Ha - the study's lead author, a former Stanford graduate student.

(Zinc Deficiency during Pregnancy Linked to Autism in Babies, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

“It’s a bit like film photography,” explained graduate student researcher Daniel Oran.

(Researchers Use Laser to Shrink Objects to Nanoscale, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

That's going to be a very interesting question in the future, said first author Melinda Webster, an oceanography graduate student at the University of Washington.

(Snow cover on Arctic Sea ice has thinned 30 to 50 percent, NASA)

"This is a complex problem," said Kelly Kulhanek, a graduate student in the UMD Department of Entomology who helped with the survey.

(Study Finds Mixed News About Bee Populations, VOA)

Christopher Mankovich, a graduate student in astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, used the data to study wave patterns within the rings.

(Scientists Finally Know What Time It Is on Saturn, NASA)

Indeed, both clinical and preclinical studies report that females require almost twice as much morphine as males to produce comparable pain relief, said Hillary Doyle, graduate student in the Murphy Laboratory in the Neuroscience Institute of Georgia State.

(Why Women May Feel More Pain Than Men, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

We think two big asteroids crashed into each other, creating a huge cloud of grains the size of very fine sand, which are now smashing themselves into smithereens and slowly leaking away from the star, said lead author and graduate student Huan Meng of the University of Arizona, Tucson.

(Spitzer Telescope Witnesses Asteroid Smashup, NASA)

These non-silicate, granular materials can hold their electrostatic charges for days, weeks or months at a time under low-gravity conditions, said George McDonald, a graduate student in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences who also co-authored the paper.

('Electric Sands' Cover Titan, VOA News)

When we corrected the star's parameters, the sizes of its planets dropped, and we realized the outermost one was about the size of Earth and in the habitable zone, said Emily Gilbert, a graduate student at the University of Chicago.

(NASA Planet Hunter Finds Earth-Size Habitable-Zone World, NASA)

Bees are good indicators of the health of the landscape as a whole, said Nathalie Steinhauer, a graduate student in the UMD Department of Entomology who leads the data collection efforts for the annual survey.

(Study Finds Mixed News About Bee Populations, VOA)