grad
noun
a graduate.
grad
1 American
[grad]
/ græd /
noun
Informal.
grad
2
American
[grad]
/ græd /
noun
grad.
3
American
abbreviation
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Mathematics. gradient.
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graduate.
-
graduated.
grad.
1
British
abbreviation
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maths gradient
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education graduate(d)
grad
2
British
/ ɡræd /
noun
Etymology
Origin of grad1
First recorded in 1870–75; by shortening
Origin of grad2
1905–10; < French grade degree < Latin gradus step
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As I watched the returns Tuesday night, I thought about my daughter — an earth science grad student — and her generation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
We’re among them: When my husband went to grad school, his parents gave him the down payment for a small apartment in Tucson, Arizona.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
"When I was in grad school, people thought about Alzheimer's as a more intense version of cognitive aging, but that is just not the case," Fernandez said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
Previously, grad students could borrow up to the full cost of attendance as determined by the school.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
The NAACP’s legal eagles, led by the fund’s chief counsel, Charles Hamilton Houston, and Houston’s top deputy, a gangly, whip-smart Howard University law school grad named Thurgood Marshall, shepherded the Alston v.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
“He comes from Georgetown. I’m a Georgetown grad. All they talk about it is head, heart, soul, mind and full-person development.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 23, 2019
“One of the most staunch conservative guys was an Alabama grad. He was talking football with him, smacking right back.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2019
After two years he proceeded to Camb., where he grad. in 1831, continuing, however, his independent studies in natural history.
From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. (John William) Cousin
—Philosopher and historian, was b. at Aldowrie, Inverness-shire, s. of an officer in the army and landowner, ed. at Aberdeen, whence he proceeded to Edinburgh to study medicine, in which he grad. in 1787.
From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. (John William) Cousin
So stately and so dignified She looks in cap and gown, I hardly dare to speak to her, This grad. of great renown.
From Cap and Gown A Treasury of College Verse by Frederic Lawrence Knowles
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