Word.ws English Dictionary

postdoctorate

postdoctorate adjective: postdoctoral.

Adjective

postdoctorate (not comparable)

  1. postdoctoral

Noun

postdoctorate (plural postdoctorates)

  1. Synonym of postdoc.
    Synonyms:
    postdoc

Synonyms of postdoctorate

Forms of postdoctorate

pluralpostdoctorates

Origin of postdoctorate

From post- + doctorate.

Questions about postdoctorate

What does postdoctorate mean?
Postdoctorate means postdoctoral.
What part of speech is postdoctorate?
Postdoctorate can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near postdoctorate in the dictionary

  1. postdoc
  2. postdocs
  3. postdoctoral
  4. postdoctorally
  5. postdoctorals
  6. postdoctorate
  7. postdoctorates
  8. postdomestication
  9. postdominance
  10. postdominant
  11. postdominate

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: postdoctorate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “postdoctorate.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/postdoctorate. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.