[n., adj. graj-oo-it, -eyt; v. graj-oo-eyt] 
noun, adjective, verb, -at⋅ed, -at⋅ing.| 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 cylindrical or tapering graduated container, used for measuring. |
| 4. | of, pertaining to, or involved in academic study beyond the first or bachelor's degree: graduate courses in business; a graduate student. |
| 5. | having an academic degree or diploma: a graduate engineer. |
| 6. | to receive a degree or diploma on completing a course of study (often fol. by from): She graduated from college in 1985. |
| 7. | to pass by degrees; change gradually. |
| 8. | 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. |
| 9. | 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. |
