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graduate

[ noun adjective graj-oo-it, -eyt; verb graj-oo-eyt ]

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:

    graduate courses in business; a graduate student.

  2. having an academic degree or diploma:

    a graduate engineer.

verb (used without object)

graduated, graduating.
  1. to receive a degree or diploma on completing a course of study (often followed by from ):

    She graduated from college in 1985.

  2. to pass by degrees; change gradually.

verb (used with object)

graduated, graduating.
  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:

    Cornell graduated eighty students with honors.

  2. Informal. to receive a degree or diploma from:

    She graduated college in 1950.

  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.

graduate

noun

    1. a person who has been awarded a first degree from a university or college
    2. ( as modifier )

      a graduate profession

  1. a student who has completed a course of studies at a high school and received a diploma
  2. a container, such as a flask, marked to indicate its capacity
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to receive or cause to receive a degree or diploma
  2. tr to confer a degree, diploma, etc upon
  3. tr to mark (a thermometer, flask, etc) with units of measurement; calibrate
  4. tr to arrange or sort into groups according to type, quality, etc
  5. introften foll byto to change by degrees (from something to something else)
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Usage Note

In the sense 鈥渢o receive a degree or diploma鈥 graduate followed by from is the most common construction today: Her daughter graduated from Yale in 1981. The passive form was graduated from, formerly insisted upon as the only correct pattern, has decreased in use and occurs infrequently today: My husband was graduated from West Point last year. Even though it is condemned by some as nonstandard, the use of graduate as a transitive verb meaning 鈥渢o receive a degree or diploma from鈥 is increasing in frequency in both speech and writing: The twins graduated high school in 1974.
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Derived Forms

  • 藞驳谤补诲耻藢补迟辞谤, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 驳谤补诲顎僽路补顎卼辞谤 noun
  • 苍辞苍路驳谤补诲顎僽路补迟别 noun
  • 蝉耻顎卲别谤路驳谤补诲顎僽路补迟别 noun
  • 耻苍路驳谤补诲顎僽路补迟顎卛苍驳 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of graduate1

1375鈥1425; late Middle English < Medieval Latin 驳谤补诲耻腻迟耻蝉 (past participle of 驳谤补诲耻腻谤别 ), equivalent to grad ( us ) grade, step + -u- thematic vowel + -腻迟耻蝉 -ate 1
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of graduate1

C15: from Medieval Latin 驳谤补诲耻腻谤墨 to take a degree, from Latin gradus a step
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Young people have told the BBC they are finding it harder than ever to get a job, with some graduates frustrated at being turned down for roles at supermarkets.

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Ms Purcell said she supported graduated driver licensing - a system in which restrictions would be placed on new drivers, and lifted accordingly as they passed certain stages.

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Typically, more than half of California high school graduates start at a community college.

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After graduating three years later, he soon received his first parts in the West End, appearing with Dame Margaret Rutherford and Peggy Mount in the play Farewell, Farewell, Eugene.

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Nichols' has even enlisted a team of graduate student researchers in Amsterdam and postdocs to assist in reviewing the estimates.

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