A university student, usually already possessing a four year degree, who is working on a master's degree or Ph.D.(noun)
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Use "graduate student" in a sentence
"I agreed to teach part-time, only a day a week, to a new graduate student cohort, building on the best of my oldie-but-goodie lectures that would take little time to prepare."
"The graduate student enrolled in a required internship course and was assigned to do background research for a nongovernment organization, Community Voices, that was working for passage of the clean indoor air ordinance."
"Urban College is that every graduate student (alumno), wherever he may be in the pursuit of his ministry, is bound to write every year a letter to the cardinal prefect, to let him know how the writer's work is progressing and how he fares himself."