graduate school
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3.6
- noun
- /ˈɡrædʒuˌeɪt skuːl/
- US
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posgrado
- After finishing my bachelor's degree, I decided to attend graduate school to pursue my master's in psychology.
- attend graduate school
- admission to graduate school
- go to graduate school
Will the candidates from the Graduate School of Business please stand?
- Will the candidates from the Graduate School of Business please stand?
- Immensely, when when I first got to Graduate School, I was assigned an advisor.
- And so that took me through college and through Graduate School.
- And then I went to Graduate School and in between I went to Quebec.
- And I literally met him the very first day of Graduate School.
- I remember asking my professor back in Graduate School what is self actualization?
- This I I've been reading this book and rereading it again since Graduate School.
- And the biggest drop offs in participation are between undergraduate and Graduate School and then post doc to faculty.
- I regret that I did not put enough effort into learning statistics in Graduate School.
Examples
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When I was in Graduate School, John Glenn took his trip around the Earth.
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Now I'm going back to graduate school.
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First is, look, I went to college and Graduate School to study this stuff.
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Back in 2014, I was in graduate school.
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Have you thought about graduate school?
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My government had decided to pay me to go to graduate school.
Fiction book (1999) -
Students seemed most interested in how they could be admitted to graduate schools in the United States.
Academic text (1999) -
After finishing my active duty, I decided to go on to graduate school.
Academic text (2008) -
In graduate school, everyone thought the only mistake the admissions committee made was letting 'em in.
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That lesson I took with me not only through college and Graduate School, but for my entire career as a physicist.
Synonyms
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3.2
A university program where students study for master's or PhD degrees
How Advanced
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is compositionally built from 'graduate' (relating to postgraduate study) + 'school' (an educational institution), so its meaning 'a school for advanced degrees' follows directly from the constituent meanings. This modifier+noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and would be predictable to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Graduate school is named for people who are already graduates, meaning they have finished a first degree and go on to study more. That's why it means a school for 'advanced' study where students earn master's or doctorate degrees.