graduate
Meanings
Plural: graduates
Noun
- a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)
- a measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume; a glass container (cup or cylinder or flask) whose sides are marked with or divided into amounts
- A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
- A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school.
- A person who is recognized as having completed any level of education.
- A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring.
Verb
- receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies
- "She graduated in 1990"
- confer an academic degree upon
- "This school graduates 2,000 students each year"
- make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring
- "graduate a cylinder"
- To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
- To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution).
- To certify (a student) as having earned a degree
- 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.
- To change gradually.
- To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of.
- To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
- To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
- To approve (a feature) for general release.
- 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.
Adjective Satellite
- of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree
- "graduate courses"
Adj
- graduated, arranged by degrees
- holding an academic degree
- relating to an academic degree
Origin / 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).
Antonyms
drop-out, student
Scrabble Score: 10
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