graduate1 noungraduate2 verbgraduate3 adjective
graduategrad‧u‧ate1 /ˈɡrædʒuət/ ●●● S2 W2 noun [countable] 
WORD ORIGINgraduate1
Origin:
1400-1500 Medieval Latin graduatus, from Latin gradus; ➔ GRADE1EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a high school graduate
- At one point, he hired a young college graduate to help.
- He received his degree at eighteen, the youngest graduate in Thiel history.
- Many former students including the Department's first graduate, Mr Eric Jones, enjoyed an afternoon of reminiscences and renewed friendships.
- Patrick Wallace, an accountancy graduate from Dungannon, and Marcus Campbell both booked their debuts on snooker's most famous stage.
- The one that bears a picture of an honorary graduate.
- We are currently seeking a recent graduate to join our software team, located on the University of Warwick Science Park.
WORD SETS
AA, nounacademia, nounacademic, adjectiveacademic, nounacademy, nounalum, nounalumna, nounalumni, nounalumnus, nounassistant professor, nounAssociate of Arts, nounassociate professor, nounaudit, verbBA, nounbachelor's degree, nounBig Man on Campus, nounblue book, nounbrother, nounBSc, nounbursar, nounbursary, nouncampus, nounCantab, chair, nounchancellery, nounchancellor, nounclass, nouncoed, nouncommencement, nouncommunity college, nounconservatoire, nounconservatory, nounconvocation, nouncourse, nouncredit, nouncum laude, adverbdean, noundean's list, noundiploma, noundissertation, noundoctor, noundoctoral, adjectivedoctorate, nounDoctor of Philosophy, noundon, noundorm, noundormitory, noundouble first, noundown, adverbelective, nounexaminer, nounextension, nounextramural, adjectivefaculty, nounfinancial aid, nounfirst class, noungrad, noungrad school, noungraduate, noungraduate, verbgraduate, adjectivegraduate school, noungraduation, nounGRE, nounGreek, nounhall, nounhall of residence, nounhaze, verbhigher education, nounhomecoming, nounhonor roll, nounhonours degree, nounintercollegiate, adjectiveintramural, adjectiveIvy League, the, adjectivejoint honours, nounjunior college, nounlectureship, nounLLB, nounLLD, nounLLM, nounMA, nounmagna cum laude, adjectivemajor, nounMaster of Arts, nounMaster of Science, nounmaster's, nounmaster's degree, nounmatriculate, verbmature student, nounMBA, nounMEd, nounmedic, nounmedical school, nounMFA, nounmidterm, nounMilitary Academy, nounminor, nounMLitt, nounmortarboard, nounMPhil, nounM.Sc., nounOpen University, the, option, nounoral, nounOxbridge, nounPhD, nounPhi Beta Kappa, nounpledge, nounpledge, verbpoly, nounpolytechnic, nounpost doctoral, adjectivepost-grad, nounpostgraduate, nounpostgraduate, adjectivepractical, nounprof, nounprofessor, nounprofessorial, adjectiveprofessorship, nounProvost, nounqualified, adjectivequarter, nounrag, nounread, verbreadership, nounredbrick, adjectiverush, verbrush, nounsandwich course, nounschool, nounsemester, nounseminar, nounseminary, nounsenate, nounsenior, nounsingle honours, nounsophomore, nounsorority, nounspring break, nounstate university, nounstudent union, nounsubject, nounsumma cum laude, adverbsummer school, nounsurvey course, nounsyllabus, nountech, nountechnical college, nountenure, nountermly, adjectivetertiary education, nountheological college, nounthesis, nounthird, nounthird class, nountutor, nountutorial, nountutorial, adjective2.1, nountwo-two, nounU., undergraduate, noununi, nounUniv., university, nounupperclassman, nounupperclasswoman, nounvac, nounvacation, nounvarsity, nounvice-chancellor, nounvisiting professor, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
a high-school graduateCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES He wrote his doctoral thesis on contemporary French literature.
1someone who has completed a university degree, especially a first degree: a high-school graduate He wrote his doctoral thesis on contemporary French literature. (=leave after getting a degree)· She graduated from Liverpool University in 2006.
(=someone who has completed a university course)· She is a university graduate who speaks three languages.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Madge Niven - our oldest graduate at 85 years.· My first executive assistant was Hu Tsang, a thirty-three year-old graduate of the Kennedy School.
· We are currently seeking a recent graduate to join our software team, located on the University of Warwick Science Park.· A recent high-school graduate sat at the reception desk.
· I believe any young graduate would get an awful lot of value from working with people on the shop floor.· At one point, he hired a young college graduate to help.· Photo: Pam Meecham, 1999 when she was a young graduate at Yale University.· He received his degree at eighteen, the youngest graduate in Thiel history.· After all, he or she is the siren who can lure the young graduate or woman returner into their particular workplace.
NOUN· This may not be the high-minded stuff that nudged this soft-spoken Barnard College graduate toward a career in publishing.· At one point, he hired a young college graduate to help.
· It is hardly suited as a textbook for a graduate course in atomic theory.· The girl who spoke to her was doing a post graduate course in nursing.
· Other developments are probable, including further graduate degrees.· Get a graduate degree at a civilian university.· Nursing service administrators are usually chosen from among supervisory registered nurses with administrative abilities and a graduate degree in nursing administration.
· For graduate engineers with good building experience, the sky's the limit.
· The girl who spoke to her was doing a post graduate course in nursing.· The £200 prize will go to the best presentation by a post graduate student.
· Coffman got into the Stanford graduate program in 1971, seeking a doctorate in astronautics.
· He's a newly minted law school graduate from Long Island.
· It is also responsible for administering the procedures for the admission, supervision and examination of all graduate students.· I remember one in particular prepared by a graduate student who came from a well-to-do family.· I started compiling an annotated bibliography of the philosophy of mind when I was a graduate student learning the ropes.· As a graduate student at the London School of Economics I was taught that stock markets were efficient.· And we tell our graduate students that they must never take such risks, construing as scruple what in fact is timidity.· Most of my fellow graduate students could read another language.· Such interdisciplinary co-operation in teaching and supervision is particularly valuable, as indeed is the international composition of the graduate student body.· It remains the Second Coming in the eyes of critics, graduate students and indie watchers.
· And we have not forgotten those of you who are going on to post graduate studies.· I could take a leave of absence from graduate study for one year and still have my fellowship held for me.· Notable among these are Volunteers contemplating careers in the field of economic development, after first pursuing graduate study in economics.· In addition, she did all the housework, her graduate studies, and held down two part-time jobs.· Flores also dreams of graduate study.· She was also doing excellent work in her graduate studies.· But it was privately, not through the government, and not for advanced field training, but for graduate study.· As young scholars progress through graduate study, they acquire more than knowledge and method: Strong allegiances are formed.
· As a matter of fact, I started on this paper as a graduate trainee myself.· The first one was written by a university senior applying for a graduate trainee position with a bank.· Geographers are well represented in industry, commerce, government and the professions, and are widely sought-after as graduate trainees.
· Einhorn, a Drexel University graduate, has been with Rohm and Haas since 1987.· Not surprisingly, then, the prime example of this new R & B sensibility was a black university graduate.
· There should be more graduate work generally, and an increase in the number of undergraduate courses covering wider fields of study.· I had that experience in my own graduate work as a chemist.· He was planning to do graduate work in Egyptology, a field that the Afrocentrists had annexed to black studies.
a Harvard graduategraduate of a graduate of Edinburgh University university graduates a history graduategraduate in He’s a graduate in philosophy.2American English someone who has completed a course at a college, school etc: a high-school graduategraduate1 noungraduate2 verbgraduate3 adjective
graduategrad‧u‧ate2 /ˈɡrædʒueɪt/ ●●● S2 W2 verb VERB TABLE
graduate
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | graduate |
| he, she, it | graduates | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | graduated |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have graduated |
| he, she, it | has graduated | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had graduated |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will graduate |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have graduated |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am graduating |
| he, she, it | is graduating | |
| you, we, they | are graduating | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was graduating |
| you, we, they | were graduating | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been graduating |
| he, she, it | has been graduating | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been graduating |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be graduating |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been graduating |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Mitch graduated from Stanford in 1998 with a degree in biochemistry.
- She graduated in modern languages and now works as an interpreter.
- We both graduated from the same high school in Queens.
- We expect to graduate nearly 300 students this year.
- What are you going to do after you graduate?
- When I graduate I want to study law at the Northeastern university.
- And once Bunny graduated, so it did.
- He was really pleased when he graduated to the bigger ones.
- Instead, students who arrive on campus with some community college credits under their belt can graduate early.
- The goals include upgrading teachers' performance and boosting to 90 percent the number of students who graduate from high school.
THESAURUSto leave school/college etc
especially British English to finish studying at school or college, usually at the age or time when people normally finish: · When James left school, he worked for a while with his father.· She found it hard to get a job after leaving university.
to successfully finish your studies at a college or university, or at an American high school: · Kelly graduated from Harvard with a degree in East Asian Studies.· Approximately 80% of Americans graduate from high school.
to leave school, college, or university before your course of study has finished, because you do not want to continue with it: · I failed my first year exams and decided to drop out and get a job.
American English to leave school without finishing your course of study: · He quit school at fourteen to work and help support his family.
Longman Language Activatorto permanently leave your school, college etc · I hated school and couldn't wait to leave.· I worked in an office when I first left school.· In the past, girls tended to leave full-time education earlier than boys.
to successfully finish your studies at a university or at an American high school or college: · What are you going to do after you graduate?· When I graduate I want to study law at the Northeastern university.graduate from: · We both graduated from the same high school in Queens.
to leave school, college, or university before your course of study has finished and have no intention of returning: college/high-school dropout: · One third of the city's students drop out before graduation.drop out of: · He dropped out of art college and joined a band.
to pass a test to reach a high enough standard to succeed in an examination or test: · "I'm taking my driving test today." "Do you think you'll pass?"· New recruits have to pass a physical fitness test.pass with flying coloursBritish /colors American (=pass a test or examination with very high marks): · She was so nervous about her examination results, but in fact she passed with flying colours.
especially British to pass all the examinations that you need in order to become a doctor, lawyer, engineer etc: · After qualifying, she joined the NatWest Bank as a corporate advisor.qualify as: · She wanted to improve her English so she could qualify as a translator.
to pass all your final examinations at university or college, and get a degree. In the US, graduate also means to successfully complete your high school education: · What are you going to do after you graduate?graduate from: · Mitch graduated from Stanford in 1998 with a degree in biochemistry.graduate in history/French/medicine etc British: · She graduated in modern languages and now works as an interpreter.
especially British, informal to only just pass an examination, by getting only a few marks more than are necessary: · Daniel scraped through the entrance exam.· I scraped through my exams with marks just good enough to keep my place in the school of pharmacy.
to pass a difficult test or examination: · The entrance exam is very difficult and only a small minority of candidates get through.get somebody through something: · Reading that book at the last minute was the only thing that got me through the history exam.
informal to pass a test or examination very easily: · "How'd his exams go?" "He breezed through - no trouble at all.sail/breeze through something: · She sailed through her driving test the first time.
· My teacher told me she passed me only because she knew I'd had a really hard year.· I didn't think the candidate deserved to be given a pass but the other examiners disagreed.
WORD SETSAA, nounacademia, nounacademic, adjectiveacademic, nounacademy, nounalum, nounalumna, nounalumni, nounalumnus, nounassistant professor, nounAssociate of Arts, nounassociate professor, nounaudit, verbBA, nounbachelor's degree, nounBig Man on Campus, nounblue book, nounbrother, nounBSc, nounbursar, nounbursary, nouncampus, nounCantab, chair, nounchancellery, nounchancellor, nounclass, nouncoed, nouncommencement, nouncommunity college, nounconservatoire, nounconservatory, nounconvocation, nouncourse, nouncredit, nouncum laude, adverbdean, noundean's list, noundiploma, noundissertation, noundoctor, noundoctoral, adjectivedoctorate, nounDoctor of Philosophy, noundon, noundorm, noundormitory, noundouble first, noundown, adverbelective, nounexaminer, nounextension, nounextramural, adjectivefaculty, nounfinancial aid, nounfirst class, noungrad, noungrad school, noungraduate, noungraduate, verbgraduate, adjectivegraduate school, noungraduation, nounGRE, nounGreek, nounhall, nounhall of residence, nounhaze, verbhigher education, nounhomecoming, nounhonor roll, nounhonours degree, nounintercollegiate, adjectiveintramural, adjectiveIvy League, the, adjectivejoint honours, nounjunior college, nounlectureship, nounLLB, nounLLD, nounLLM, nounMA, nounmagna cum laude, adjectivemajor, nounMaster of Arts, nounMaster of Science, nounmaster's, nounmaster's degree, nounmatriculate, verbmature student, nounMBA, nounMEd, nounmedic, nounmedical school, nounMFA, nounmidterm, nounMilitary Academy, nounminor, nounMLitt, nounmortarboard, nounMPhil, nounM.Sc., nounOpen University, the, option, nounoral, nounOxbridge, nounPhD, nounPhi Beta Kappa, nounpledge, nounpledge, verbpoly, nounpolytechnic, nounpost doctoral, adjectivepost-grad, nounpostgraduate, nounpostgraduate, adjectivepractical, nounprof, nounprofessor, nounprofessorial, adjectiveprofessorship, nounProvost, nounqualified, adjectivequarter, nounrag, nounread, verbreadership, nounredbrick, adjectiverush, verbrush, nounsandwich course, nounschool, nounsemester, nounseminar, nounseminary, nounsenate, nounsenior, nounsingle honours, nounsophomore, nounsorority, nounspring break, nounstate university, nounstudent union, nounsubject, nounsumma cum laude, adverbsummer school, nounsurvey course, nounsyllabus, nountech, nountechnical college, nountenure, nountermly, adjectivetertiary education, nountheological college, nounthesis, nounthird, nounthird class, nountutor, nountutorial, nountutorial, adjective2.1, nountwo-two, nounU., undergraduate, noununi, nounUniv., university, nounupperclassman, nounupperclasswoman, nounvac, nounvacation, nounvarsity, nounvice-chancellor, nounvisiting professor, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES He wrote his doctoral thesis on contemporary French literature.
He wrote his doctoral thesis on contemporary French literature. (=leave after getting a degree)· She graduated from Liverpool University in 2006.
(=someone who has completed a university course)· She is a university graduate who speaks three languages.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· Benjamin Braddock, who has just graduated with honours, flies back to his wealthy family in Southern California suburbia.· In 1963 Vine had just graduated in geophysics from Cambridge.· I just graduated in May from the conservatory.· Thousands of students just graduated all over the country in law.· It was Tom Molineaux, a small, wiry, jumpy sort of person who had just graduated from Polytechnic High.
NOUN· You had organized it yourself shortly after graduating from the conducting class at the Musikhochschule in Vienna?· One entire wall is devoted to photographs of the various sixth-grade and junior high school graduating classes she taught over the years.· He went from school to college, and he graduated top of his class.· A dozen eleventh-graders in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, made up the first graduating class.· Less than 10 % of those who applied for Stanford's graduating class of 2003 got in.· Ballard counted the number of students qualified to enroll at City in the 1968 graduating classes of two predominantly black high schools.· The annual graduating class was expected to reach 3, 000 in 1996.· She graduated fifteenth in a class of five hundred.
· He went from school to college, and he graduated top of his class.· Alvin had gone to work to earn money for college after graduating from high school in June 1948.· At one college 20 computer students graduated last year.· He was the third child in a family of six children and the only one to graduate from college.
· There has to be a period of simply understanding how things work; then graduating to some degree of management control.· Average starting salaries for graduates with technical degrees have also gotten a boost.· Establishes residence and then applies to San Jose State, where he graduates in Sixty-seven, degree in mathematics.
· The list is short-and yet one must note that seventy-five percent of the female lawyers graduated from law school after 1970.· He tried practicing in a firm after graduating from law school-in and around a stint in the military-and wanted out quickly.
· One entire wall is devoted to photographs of the various sixth-grade and junior high school graduating classes she taught over the years.· My high school graduating class, in a major metropolitan area, had only a few hundred students in it.· She attended school in Warsaw and graduated from high school in Minto.· In 1994 the unemployment rate for recent high school graduates not enrolled in college was 36 percent.· The law school graduated its first black student in 1880.· The unemployment rate for black high school graduates in 1994 was nearly double that of white high school graduates.
· He also graduated from Moorhead State University in 1989 with a bachelor's degree in computer information systems.· By then, Graham had graduated from Appalachian State University with a degree in business.· He graduated from North Dakota State University in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering.
· In 1985, only 3 percent of medical students graduated owing more than $ 75, 000.· In the late 1960s between three-quarters and four-fifths of students graduated, generally in four years.· In 1988, 460,000 students were graduating nationwide, but there was a demand for 700,000 a shortfall, not a surplus.· The goals include upgrading teachers' performance and boosting to 90 percent the number of students who graduate from high school.· Thus, employment prospects for students graduating in the accounting field are excellent.· More students graduate from high school than at any point in our history.· A.R. You mean that drama students who are graduating from training should have the chance to join Equity?· Once they entered these programs, the percentage of students expecting to graduate and enter college or vocational training more than doubled.
· They might remember also that without bipartisan accommodation the graduated income tax never would have become a constitutional amendment.· Taylor attacked a proposal by Forbes to replace the current graduated income tax with a flat tax of 17 percent.
· Background: Left nursing in 1986 to study law at East Anglia University, graduating in 1989.· He tells her that it would be impossible for the university to lock into graduated raises.
· Mrs Goode's success follows that of her husband, David, who graduated two years ago in technical and computer studies.· The country produces some 3,500 engineering graduates a year, only about half as many as private industry needs.· At one college 20 computer students graduated last year.· They had not met since they graduated over 20 years previously!· The emigrants are predominantly young and skilled: Hong Kong is now losing more graduates each year than it produces.· A Research Dissertation which is late may result in your being unable to graduate for a further year.
· A couple of years later he graduated to sticking up posters to advertise concerts.· Melanie Feinman plans to take five years to graduate from college, a year more than many students.· Harvard MBAs change employers on average between three and four times in the ten years after they graduate.· Candidates must have a minimum of 5 years work experience since graduating in economics.
VERB· Paul Gross, a chemistry professor at Wake-Forest, recognised Pons' ability and recommended that he go to graduate school.· She graduated with very good grades and went on to graduate school.· But it was there that she went, graduating in 1949 when only 19.· I went to graduate school so I could have a career teaching literature.· Karen and Jess are planning to go to graduate school.
· The present P10 flat fare using tokens will be replaced by a graduated fare structure using stored-value magnetic stripe cards.· Taylor attacked a proposal by Forbes to replace the current graduated income tax with a flat tax of 17 percent.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
1[intransitive] to obtain a degree, especially a first degree, from a college or universitygraduate from- Bob played college baseball but never graduated to the majors.
- After graduating he travelled to Paris, and was there during the 1848 rising.
- Furthermore, he had the brains and the strength of character to graduate from rebel leader to legitimate president.
- He began his coaching career as a graduate assistant to Jim Harrick at Pepperdine in 1982.
- In the process Kurt had graduated from business adviser to trusted friend.
- Often, a graduate has to complete a year at college or at law school after taking a degree.
- Over the next 15 years, 700 did-and three-fourths of those graduated, according to Gray.
- They graduate and get to be OLs for a while.
- Too many think it is important to graduate but not to do well.
Kate graduated from medical school last year.graduate in He graduated in physics from Cambridge University.2[intransitive] American English to complete your education at high schoolgraduate from Jerry graduated from high school last year.3graduate (from something) to something to start doing something that is bigger, better, or more important SYN progress: As an actress she has graduated from small roles to more substantial parts.4[transitive] especially American English to give a degree or diploma to someone who has completed a coursegraduate1 noungraduate2 verbgraduate3 adjective
graduategrad‧u‧ate3 /ˈɡrædʒuət/ adjective EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- By graduate levels in the universities there will be several thousand.
- Now there are 3, 000 graduate students as well as 11, 500 undergraduates.
- These days, almost a quarter of Jur entering graduate students are women.
WORD SETS
AA, nounacademia, nounacademic, adjectiveacademic, nounacademy, nounalum, nounalumna, nounalumni, nounalumnus, nounassistant professor, nounAssociate of Arts, nounassociate professor, nounaudit, verbBA, nounbachelor's degree, nounBig Man on Campus, nounblue book, nounbrother, nounBSc, nounbursar, nounbursary, nouncampus, nounCantab, chair, nounchancellery, nounchancellor, nounclass, nouncoed, nouncommencement, nouncommunity college, nounconservatoire, nounconservatory, nounconvocation, nouncourse, nouncredit, nouncum laude, adverbdean, noundean's list, noundiploma, noundissertation, noundoctor, noundoctoral, adjectivedoctorate, nounDoctor of Philosophy, noundon, noundorm, noundormitory, noundouble first, noundown, adverbelective, nounexaminer, nounextension, nounextramural, adjectivefaculty, nounfinancial aid, nounfirst class, noungrad, noungrad school, noungraduate, noungraduate, verbgraduate, adjectivegraduate school, noungraduation, nounGRE, nounGreek, nounhall, nounhall of residence, nounhaze, verbhigher education, nounhomecoming, nounhonor roll, nounhonours degree, nounintercollegiate, adjectiveintramural, adjectiveIvy League, the, adjectivejoint honours, nounjunior college, nounlectureship, nounLLB, nounLLD, nounLLM, nounMA, nounmagna cum laude, adjectivemajor, nounMaster of Arts, nounMaster of Science, nounmaster's, nounmaster's degree, nounmatriculate, verbmature student, nounMBA, nounMEd, nounmedic, nounmedical school, nounMFA, nounmidterm, nounMilitary Academy, nounminor, nounMLitt, nounmortarboard, nounMPhil, nounM.Sc., nounOpen University, the, option, nounoral, nounOxbridge, nounPhD, nounPhi Beta Kappa, nounpledge, nounpledge, verbpoly, nounpolytechnic, nounpost doctoral, adjectivepost-grad, nounpostgraduate, nounpostgraduate, adjectivepractical, nounprof, nounprofessor, nounprofessorial, adjectiveprofessorship, nounProvost, nounqualified, adjectivequarter, nounrag, nounread, verbreadership, nounredbrick, adjectiverush, verbrush, nounsandwich course, nounschool, nounsemester, nounseminar, nounseminary, nounsenate, nounsenior, nounsingle honours, nounsophomore, nounsorority, nounspring break, nounstate university, nounstudent union, nounsubject, nounsumma cum laude, adverbsummer school, nounsurvey course, nounsyllabus, nountech, nountechnical college, nountenure, nountermly, adjectivetertiary education, nountheological college, nounthesis, nounthird, nounthird class, nountutor, nountutorial, nountutorial, adjective2.1, nountwo-two, nounU., undergraduate, noununi, nounUniv., university, nounupperclassman, nounupperclasswoman, nounvac, nounvacation, nounvarsity, nounvice-chancellor, nounvisiting professor, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES He wrote his doctoral thesis on contemporary French literature.
[only before noun] especially American English relating to or involved in studies done at a university after completing a first degree SYN postgraduate British English: He wrote his doctoral thesis on contemporary French literature. (=leave after getting a degree)· She graduated from Liverpool University in 2006.
(=someone who has completed a university course)· She is a university graduate who speaks three languages.
a graduate student- person
- persona
- personable
- personage
- personal
- personal ad
- personal allowance
- personal assistant
- personal column
- personal communicator
- personal computer
- personal data organizer
- personal digital assistant
- personal electronic device
- personal exemption
- personal identification number
- personality
- personality cult
- personalize
- personalized
- personally
- personal organizer
- personal pronoun
- personals
- personal shopper