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[n., adj. graj-oo-it, -eyt; v. graj-oo-eyt]

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noun

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.

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adjective

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.

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verb (used without object)

to receive a degree or diploma on completing a course of study (often followed by from): She graduated from college in 1985.

to pass by degrees; change gradually.

verb (used with object)

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.

10.

to arrange in grades or gradations; establish gradation in.

11.

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

Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English < Medieval Latin graduātus (past participle of graduāre), equivalent to grad(us) grade, step + -u- thematic vowel + -ātus -ate¹

Related forms

grad·u·a·tor, noun

non·grad·u·ate, noun

su·per·grad·u·ate, noun

un·grad·u·at·ing, adjective

Usage note
In the sense “to receive a degree or diploma” 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. EXPAND
Even though it is condemned by some as nonstandard, the use of graduate as a transitive verb meaning “to receive a degree or diploma from” is increasing in frequency in both speech and writing: The twins graduated high school in 1974.

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Franco is clearly not your average graduate student.

Outstanding graduate programs are the hallmark of a great university.

In future, one of the big returns to a strong brand may be its effects on graduate recruitment.

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Franco is clearly not your average graduate student.

Outstanding graduate programs are the hallmark of a great university.

In future, one of the big returns to a strong brand may be its effects on graduate recruitment.

His undergraduate and graduate level courses cover the field of visual cognition and psychology.

She is planning to go on to graduate school to study pharmacology and medicinal plant research.

There were dissertations on the bookshelves from his former graduate students.

Because these fellowships are full-time, they are not appropriate for matriculated undergraduate or graduate students.

No one should deny that graduate education is in a bad way at the moment.

Student and graduate questionnaires were audited for multiple or false entries.

Open to graduate students and juniors and seniors in college.

No, it is not a pattern made by tipsy graduate students.

Ragone became fascinated by breadfruit as a botany graduate student in the mid-1980s, and started collecting samples worldwide.

Most students are required to take a computer-based test to get into graduate school or business school.

Like entry-level workers everywhere, graduate students often carry their industry on their backs.

Limited on-campus accommodation is available in the graduate residence hall and in married-student apartments.

Many useful insights lurked in its vertices, awaiting discovery by inquiring graduate students.

In my mind, there is no doubt that an important part of my job is to make sure my graduate students get their own jobs.

The economists tried to control for every possible variable, such as outside scholarships and the quality of graduate students.

Service, however, almost completely falls by the wayside as a subject for which graduate students are prepared.

The topic of discussion was some type of entrance score to a graduate program.

The school's aim is to graduate students fluent in both languages.

She began working with captive tamarins in college, then switched focus to wild tamarins as a graduate student.

In colleges that have master's and doctoral programs, graduate students are regularly used as cheap teaching labor.

The tradition will continue: in any given year, half a dozen graduate students are training there.

Graduate students typically visit their university's career-services office when they need.

Earlier this year, graduate students suddenly found themselves deprived of a major source of procrastination when.

But it doesn't especially impact upon graduate incomes relative to non-graduate incomes.

Science graduate students who did research and taught improved their written research proposals over the.

The university acquiesced and opened the first co-educational, graduate level medical school.

Soderberg had been focusing on this new type of explosion for four years while completing her graduate work.

Financial pressures have shifted grant writing to the forefront of skills that graduate students need to survive academic life.

But the graduate elite will have the world at its feet.

My undergraduate degree was in aerospace engineering and graduate degree was computation engineering.

Boochever studied art at the graduate level and was an avid collector.

Not bad for someone who didn't graduate from high school.

Graduate and undergraduate enrollments are at record.

Today a graduate student can achieve similar results with a simple apparatus using optical frequency combs.

They then asked for unpaid volunteers to aid a desperate graduate student with another study:.

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World English Dictionary

graduate

—n
1.	a. a person who has been awarded a first degree from a university or college
	b. (as modifier): a graduate profession
2.	(US), (Canadian) a student who has completed a course of studies at a high school and received a diploma
3.	(US) a container, such as a flask, marked to indicate its capacity

—vb (often foll by to)
4.	to receive or cause to receive a degree or diploma
5.	chiefly (US), (Canadian) (tr) to confer a degree, diploma, etc upon
6.	(tr) to mark (a thermometer, flask, etc) with units of measurement; calibrate
7.	(tr) to arrange or sort into groups according to type, quality, etc
8.	to change by degrees (from something to something else)

[C15: from Medieval Latin graduārī to take a degree, from Latin gradus a step]

'graduator

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Word Origin & History

graduate

late 15c., from M.L. graduatus, pp. of graduari "to take a degree," from L. gradus "step, grade" (see grade). The abbreviated form grad is attested from 1871. The verb is 1580s (trans.), 1807 (intrans.).

Slang Dictionary

graduate definition

[ˈgrædʒuət]

n.
a person experienced in life, especially sexually experienced. : Britney is a graduate. Nothing is new to her.
in.
[ˈgrædʒuet]to move from casual drug use to addiction. (Drugs.) : Gert graduated to smack after only a year of skin-popping.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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"[On Harvard President Charles William Eliot's lamentation that the average Harvard graduate had fewer than two children:] That is quite enough. Harvard graduates do not always make the best fathers. Why should we be agitated over the too small families of the rich when there are so many children of the poor that are not cared for? The rich should make it their duty to raise up these children to a higher standard.... Men of the world hate to give up their tobacco, liquor, sports, clubs, their luxurious habits, their freedom from responsibility. They prefer to flock together and so women are compelled to do the same. President Eliot talks as though the young women were sitting around anxiously and aimlessly waiting for the graduates to come and get them. He would find, if he should make the proper investigation, that a class of women is being developed who are demanding a higher standard of morals in men than did those of past generations, and if they cannot get husbands who reach this standard they are making very satisfactory careers for themselves outside of marriage."

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