grad student
40
2.8
- noun
- /ɡræd ˈstjuːdənt/
- Informal
:
estudiante de posgrado
- As a grad student, she spends most of her time conducting research for her thesis.
Apparently he really berated A grad student who wrote an assembler.
- Apparently he really berated A grad student who wrote an assembler.
- They missed search and a couple guys, grad students at Stanford, figured out how to search.
- This is like basically your entire time as a grad student is this.
- And that group of people I would classify as grad students.
- We were shooting Science Out Loud during the first season with two grad students who are in Arrow Astro.
- It's less so now, but in my first decade or so here at Yale, I would ask grad students, what's your favorite book you read?
- And I think it was also a problem sometimes for some of my own fellow grad students.
- And he also had grad students and and post docs like me who strongly believed that they were night owls just like everybody else.
Examples
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What advice would you offer a grad student who is barely breaking even and is trying to pay for a simple wedding?
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I socialized some with my fellow grad students in French literature.
Fiction book (1990) -
This is like basically your entire time as a grad student is this.
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One of my grad students.
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"We should still try," she told one of her grad students.
Academic text (2016) -
Gene had given a talk at Columbia, and the grad students had taken him to dinner.
Academic text (2014) -
I always tell my grad students that everything's great.
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So I'm working as a grad student in Professor Banjo's lab.
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Grad student in comparative religion.
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Here's a new study by Ashley King, a grad student at the University of Arizona.
Blog text (5)
Synonyms
75
2.5
A student who studies for a master's or PhD after finishing a bachelor's degree
3
4.0
A student doing further study after finishing a bachelor's degree at university
How Advanced
- Specialized
6
6.7
- Specialized
24
6.3
179
3.7
- Informal
40
2.8
93
3.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound clearly combines 'grad' (short for 'graduate') and 'student', so a learner who knows both words will likely infer it relates to students at the graduate level. However, 'grad' can also be interpreted as 'someone who has graduated', which makes the exact role (a student in postgraduate study vs a former student) potentially confusing without exposure to academic register and context. Because the constituent meanings give a strong but not fully predictable cue, this is best classed as semi-transparent.
Etymology
Grad student is a short form of 'graduate student'. Think of someone who finished a first degree but stays at university to study more for a master's or PhD. The grad part shows they are beyond the first degree and the student part shows they are still studying, so the phrase means 'a student doing a master's or doctoral degree'.