graduate

Meaning

Noun

1. A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
2. (Canada, US) A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school.
3. (Philippines) A person who is recognized as having completed any level of education.
4. A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring.

Adj

1. graduated, arranged by degrees
2. holding an academic degree
3. relating to an academic degree

Verb

1. (ergative, intransitive) To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
2. (proscribed, transitive) To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution).
3. (transitive) To certify (a student) as having earned a degree
4. (transitive) To mark (something) with degrees; to divide into regular steps or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.
5. (intransitive) To change gradually.
6. To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of.
7. To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
8. (intransitive) To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
9. (transitive) To approve (a feature) for general release.
10. (Japanese, intransitive) Of an idol: to exit a group; or of a virtual YouTuber, to leave a management agency; usually accompanied with "graduation ceremony" send-offs, increased focus on the leaving member, and the like.

Synonyms

alumnus

grad

calibrate

postgraduate

graduating student

graduation

🎓

certificated

bachelor

alumna

having a degree

fine-tune

grade

senior

alum

be graduated

measuring glass

graduated

🎓

licensed

old boy

outflow

progress

pundit

regulate

rising

sage

scalable

scale

scholar

shade

undergrad

undergraduate

graduate student

professionally qualified

knowledgeable person

degree-holder

qualified person

upper-level

final-year student

finish ones’ course of study

finish something

scale mark

medicine glass

pass examinations

adjust

graduations in degrees

baccalaureate

certificate

certify

classify

deface

Translations

Absolvent

laureato

🎓

graduado

🎓

diplômé

graduar

🎓

gradué

απόφοιτος

laurearsi

diplomato

promoveren

diplomarsi

abstufen

licencié

graduat

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɡɹædjuət/

Etymology

From Middle English graduat(e) (“(noun) a graduate of a university; (adjective) graduate, having graduated”, also used as the past participle of graduaten (“to graduate”)), borrowed from Medieval Latin graduātus (“graduated, graduate”), perfect passive participle of graduō (“to graduate”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from gradus (“step”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). The noun is originally derived within Latin from the adjective via substantivization, see -ate (noun-forming suffix). Sense 10 of the verb, relating to Japanese entertainment, is a semantic loan from Japanese 卒業 (sotsugyō).

Sentences

Thomas is a West Point graduate and Army officer .