a person who has received a degree or diploma on completing a course of study, as in a university, college, or school.

a student who holds the bachelor's or the first professional degree and is studying for an advanced degree.

a cylindrical or tapering graduated container, used for measuring.

of, pertaining to, or involved in academic study beyond the first or bachelor's degree

graduate courses in business; a graduate student.

having an academic degree or diploma

a graduate engineer.

to receive a degree or diploma on completing a course of study (often fol. by from )

She graduated from college in 1985.

to pass by degrees; change gradually.

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.

Informal . to receive a degree or diploma from

She graduated college in 1950.

to arrange in grades or gradations; establish gradation in.

to divide into or mark with degrees or other divisions, as the scale of a thermometer.

noun

undergraduate

noun

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verb

be commissioned , certify , confer degree , earn , finish , get a degree , get out * , give sheepskin , grant diploma , take a degree , win , arrange , calibrate , class , group , mark off , measure , measure out , order , proportion , range , rank , regulate , sort , alum , alumna , grad , pass