noun

1. a person who has completed a course of study at a school or college and has received a degree or diploma
2. a flask, tube, or other container marked with a progressive series of degrees (lines or numbers or both) for measuring liquids or solids

Etymology: < ML graduatus, pp. of graduare, to graduate < L gradus: see grade

transitive verb graduated -·at′ed, graduating -·at′·ing

1. to give a degree or diploma to in recognition of the completion of a course of study at a school or college
2. Informal to become a graduate of to graduate college
3. to mark (a flask, tube, gauge, etc.) with degrees for measuring
4. 1. to arrange or classify into grades according to amount, size, etc.
   2. to arrange in grades or stages graduated income tax

intransitive verb

1. to become a graduate of a school or college
2. to change, esp. advance, by degrees

adjective

1. having been graduated from a school, college, etc. a graduate engineer
2. ☆ designating, of, for, or participating in instruction or research in various fields leading to degrees above the bachelor's graduate courses, graduate students