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graduate
[ noun adjective graj-oo-it, -eyt; verb graj-oo-eyt ]
noun
- a person who has received a degree or diploma on completing a course of study, as in a university, college, or school.
- a student who holds the bachelor's or the first professional degree and is studying for an advanced degree.
- a graduated cylinder, used for measuring.
adjective
- of, relating to, or involved in academic study beyond the first or bachelor's degree:
graduate courses in business; a graduate student.
- having an academic degree or diploma:
a graduate engineer.
verb (used without object)
- to receive a degree or diploma on completing a course of study (often followed by from ):
She graduated from college in 1985.
- to pass by degrees; change gradually.
verb (used with object)
- to confer a degree upon, or to grant a diploma to, at the close of a course of study, as in a university, college, or school:
Cornell graduated eighty students with honors.
- Informal. to receive a degree or diploma from:
She graduated college in 1950.
- to arrange in grades or gradations; establish gradation in.
- to divide into or mark with degrees or other divisions, as the scale of a thermometer.
graduate
noun
- a person who has been awarded a first degree from a university or college
- ( as modifier )
a graduate profession
- a student who has completed a course of studies at a high school and received a diploma
- a container, such as a flask, marked to indicate its capacity
verb
- to receive or cause to receive a degree or diploma
- tr to confer a degree, diploma, etc upon
- tr to mark (a thermometer, flask, etc) with units of measurement; calibrate
- tr to arrange or sort into groups according to type, quality, etc
- introften foll byto to change by degrees (from something to something else)
Usage Note
Derived Forms
- ˈgraduˌator, noun
Other Words From
- gradu·ator noun
- non·gradu·ate noun
- super·gradu·ate noun
- un·gradu·ating adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of graduate1
Example Sentences
Jiménez said she moved to Tijuana around 12 years ago after she graduated from high school.
Finally, Ken Wilson — a former graduate student of Gell-Mann with feet in the worlds of both particle physics and condensed matter — united the ideas of Gell-Mann and Low with those of Kadanoff.
Of the 180 graduates of the program, 172 are still actively pursuing their businesses as of last year.
They’ve now graduated to a different school that predates the Mussolini years.
About six years ago, food microbiologist David Mills of the University of California, Davis and graduate student Nicholas Bokulich, now a food microbiologist at ETH Zurich, discovered that groups of microbes may help shape the flavor of wine.
HONG KONG—Last year, I met a Chinese graduate student on a tour of the northeastern United States before his first day at Harvard.
The whys the wherefores, I think a lot of that is somehow a link from decoding texts, as they say in graduate school.
Many times, victims drop out of school, while their alleged attackers graduate.
Girma is a 26-year-old Harvard Law School graduate—and she is blind and deaf.
On-time graduation (10%): Percentage of students who graduate within four years (NCES).
She was a graduate, and probably knew nothing of what he thought essential for a teacher to know.
The faithful Wolff too, as a graduate of a German university, had been a fighter of duels in his youth.
Mr. Garnett is a graduate of Oneida Institute, a speaker of great pathetic eloquence, and has written several valuable pamphlets.
Then graduate the shades back again to white, narrowing the first row of white with the larger mesh.
We have also established post-graduate courses, in the hope of inducing our young men to complete their studies at home.
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