postcollegiate

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adjective

Occurring after graduation from college

OriginEnglish collegiate ← Latin post ← Old Latin poste →
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Meanings

adjectivepostcollegiate (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOccurring after graduation from college

    More a loose collective or even a state of mind than an actual aesthetic movement, mumblecore concerns itself with the mundane vacillations of postcollegiate existence.

    2007 August 19, Dennis Lim, “A Generation Finds Its Mumble”, in New York Times

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pós
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pósti
  3. Proto-Italic*posti
  4. Old Latinposte
  5. Latinpost
  6. Englishpost-
  7. Englishcollegiate
  8. Englishpostcollegiate

From post- + collegiate.

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APA

postcollegiate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postcollegiate

MLA

“postcollegiate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postcollegiate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “postcollegiate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postcollegiate.

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