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postcollegiate en · ADJ

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.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Occurring 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: