Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

postcollegiate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: post-col-le-giate
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Occurring after graduation from college

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English collegiate English postcollegiate From post- + collegiate.

Questions

What does postcollegiate mean?: Occurring after graduation from college
Where does postcollegiate come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English collegiate English postcollegiate From post- + collegiate.

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