Graduate Definition

grăjo͝o-āt
graduated, graduates, graduating
verb
graduated, graduates, graduating
To be granted an academic degree or diploma.
Most of the entering freshmen stayed to graduate.
American Heritage
To become a graduate of a school or college.
Webster's New World
To become a graduate of.
To graduate college.
Webster's New World
To change, esp. advance, by degrees.
Webster's New World
To give a degree or diploma to in recognition of the completion of a course of study at a school or college.
Webster's New World
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noun
graduates
A person who has completed a course of study at a school or college and has received a degree or diploma.
Webster's New World
A graduated container, such as a cylinder or beaker.
American Heritage
A flask, tube, or other container marked with a progressive series of degrees (lines or numbers or both) for measuring liquids or solids.
Webster's New World
(US) A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school.
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adjective
Having been graduated from a school, college, etc.
A graduate engineer.
Webster's New World
Possessing an academic degree or diploma.
American Heritage
Designating, of, for, or participating in instruction or research in various fields leading to degrees above the bachelor's.
Graduate courses, graduate students.
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Other Word Forms of Graduate

Noun

Singular:
graduate
Plural:
graduates

Origin of Graduate

  • Middle English graduaten to confer a degree from Medieval Latin graduārī graduāt- to take a degree from Latin gradus step grade

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin graduātus (“graduated”), from gradus (“step”).

    From Wiktionary

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