Definitions for graduate

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graduate grad·u·ate

Spelling: [noun, adjective graj-oo-it, -eyt; verb graj-oo-e

IPA: /noun, adjective ˈgrædʒ u ɪt, -ˌeɪt; verb ˈgrædʒ uˌeɪt/

Graduate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 250 anagrams from letters in graduate (aadegrtu).

Definitions for graduate

noun

1. a person who has received a degree or diploma on completing a course of study, as in a university, college, or school.
2. a student who holds the bachelor's or the first professional degree and is studying for an advanced degree.
3. a graduated cylinder, used for measuring.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or involved in academic study beyond the first or bachelor's degree:
2. having an academic degree or diploma:

verb (used with object)

1. to confer a degree upon, or to grant a diploma to, at the close of a course of study, as in a university, college, or school:
2. Informal. to receive a degree or diploma from:
3. to arrange in grades or gradations; establish gradation in.
4. to divide into or mark with degrees or other divisions, as the scale of a thermometer.

verb (used without object)

1. to receive a degree or diploma on completing a course of study (often followed by from):
2. to pass by degrees; change gradually.

Origin of graduate

1375-1425; late Middle English Medieval Latin graduātus (past participle of graduāre), equivalent to grad(us) grade, step + -u- thematic vowel + -ātus Examples for graduate

The whys the wherefores, I think a lot of that is somehow a link from decoding texts, as they say in graduate school.

So we have a graduate of Choate or Beverly Hills High who attends Wharton, and goes to work for, say, Goldman Sachs.

Girma is a 26-year-old Harvard Law School graduate—and she is blind and deaf.

Is there a curve in it which I can modulate—a line which I can graduate—a vacancy I can fill?

HONG KONG—Last year, I met a Chinese graduate student on a tour of the northeastern United States before his first day at Harvard.

On-time graduation (10%): Percentage of students who graduate within four years (NCES).

Don't need any Normal School graduate to do that sum for us.

I wonder—women on the stage do get big sums, and they often graduate from it to society.

Father for the first time visited college to see me graduate.

At the very time he left for college, she returned––a graduate.