mestrando
Portuguese, noun
mestrando is spelled M-E-S-T-R-A-N-D-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese, the 92,647th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mestrando is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “an academic student who is pursuing a master's degree” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a gerund of mestrar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “aluno de mestrado”.
What does mestrando mean in English?
noun
- 1
Brazilmasculinean academic student who is pursuing a master's degree
verb
- 1
gerund of mestrar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. aluno de mestrado 2. pessoa que já ingressou mas ainda não concluiu o curso de mestrado
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mestrando
- mestrandos plural
- graduanda feminine
- graduandas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is mestrando in Portuguese?
mestrando appears about once in every 9 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).