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Definitions for Graduate
[1] a person who has received a degree or diploma on completing a course of study, as in a university, college, or school.
[2] a student who holds the bachelor's or the first professional degree and is studying for an advanced degree.
[3] a graduated cylinder, used for measuring.
[4] of, relating to, or involved in academic study beyond the first or bachelor's degree: graduate courses in business; a graduate student.
[5] having an academic degree or diploma: a graduate engineer.
[6] to receive a degree or diploma on completing a course of study (often followed by from ): She graduated from college in 1985.
[7] to pass by degrees; change gradually.
[8] 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.
[9] Informal . to receive a degree or diploma from: She graduated college in 1950.
[10] to arrange in grades or gradations; establish gradation in.
[11] to divide into or mark with degrees or other divisions, as the scale of a thermometer.
[12] a person who has been awarded a first degree from a university or college (as modifier ) a graduate profession
[13] US and Canadian a student who has completed a course of studies at a high school and received a diploma
[14] US a container, such as a flask, marked to indicate its capacity
[15] to receive or cause to receive a degree or diploma
[16] (tr) mainly US and Canadian to confer a degree, diploma, etc upon
[17] (tr) to mark (a thermometer, flask, etc) with units of measurement; calibrate
[18] (tr) to arrange or sort into groups according to type, quality, etc
[19] (intr often foll by to ) to change by degrees (from something to something else)
Words related to Graduate
recipient, doctor, grad, alum, alumnus, earn, finish, rank, product, bachelor, master, holder, baccalaureate, Ph.D., diplomate, licentiate, collegian, win, certify, sort
Words nearby Graduate
gradin, gradiometer, gradual, gradualism, graduand, graduate, graduate nurse, graduate school, graduated, graduated cylinder, graduated tenotomy
Origin of Graduate
1375–1425; late Middle English < Medieval Latin graduātus (past participle of graduāre ), equivalent to grad(us ) grade, step + -u- thematic vowel + -ātus -ate1
Other words from Graduate
grad·u·a·tor , noun
non·grad·u·ate , noun
su·per·grad·u·ate , noun
un·grad·u·at·ing , adjective
Word origin for Graduate
C15: from Medieval Latin graduārī to take a degree, from Latin gradus a step
Synonyms for Graduate
alum, alumnus, doctor, grad, recipient, Ph.D., baccalaureate, bachelor, collegian, diplomate, holder, licentiate, master, product, former student