graduate
noun
a person who has received a degree or diploma on completing a course of study, as in a university, college, or school.
graduates
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pluralof graduate.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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present tense formof graduate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
graduatenouna person who has received a degree or diploma on completing a course of study, as in a university, college, or school.
Example Sentences
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Guardiola's tiki-taka Barcelona built around La Masia graduates Xavi, Andres Iniesta, Sergio Busquets and, of course, Lionel Messi still resonates more than a decade since he left.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Many young people don’t want to toil in factories, which don’t provide the kind of prestige or work environments college graduates seek—and are rapidly replacing workers with robots.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
It’s in the second half of the novel, after Batter graduates from college, that the plot gains momentum and begins to soar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
"We will continue to look for ways to make the system fairer for students, graduates and taxpayers in a financially sustainable way," it said.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Exactly zero percent of those 1940 college graduates became engineers.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
