noun
- a person who has completed a course of study at a school or college and has received a degree or diploma
- a flask, tube, or other container marked with a progressive series of degrees (lines or numbers or both) for measuring liquids or solids
Origin:
< ML graduatus, pp. of graduare, to graduate < L gradus: see grade
transitive verb graduated, graduating
- to give a degree or diploma to in recognition of the completion of a course of study at a school or college
- Informal to become a graduate of: to graduate college
- to mark (a flask, tube, gauge, etc.) with degrees for measuring
- to arrange or classify into grades according to amount, size, etc.
- to arrange in grades or stages: graduated income tax