Definition of graduate in English:

graduate

noun ˈɡradʒʊətˈɡradjʊətˈɡrædʒ(ə)wət

1A person who has successfully completed a course of study or training, especially a person who has been awarded an undergraduate or first academic degree.
Example sentencesExamples
- The guests and public took tours of the place where currently over 500 undergraduate and graduate students are pursuing degrees in information technology and interactive arts.
- When the school term ended in May 1914, Hubble decided to pursue his first passion and so returned to university as a graduate student to study more astronomy.
- Everyone else in the race was either an Oxbridge graduate or undergraduate.
- Nine out of 10 professional archaeologists are graduates, but university training is not always suited to field archaeology.
- To land a job with a national governing body or team today, graduates need to study for a taught Masters degree first.
- She has donated an annual €10,000 prize to encourage entrepreneurship in undergraduates, graduates and alumni.
- Reflective journals have prompted self-regulated or metacognitive ways of thinking in students in graduate and undergraduate education courses.
- Palmer is a 1997 graduate of Ohio State University with a bachelor's degree in nursing.
- There is sufficient scope and depth here to support an independent course in a law school or in other undergraduate or graduate study.
- The participating graduates undergo intensive training and are presented with a unique opportunity to gain valuable commercial experience within an ambitious company.
- The downtown campus offers a broad range of undergraduate and graduate courses.
- Some simply wanted to practice their English, while others hoped to obtain vocational training in law enforcement or pursue undergraduate or graduate degrees.
- Many graduate and undergraduate students have worked with us on our radar work and we appreciate their valuable contributions.
- He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Child Development, Test and Measurements, and Educational Psychology.
- And both successful graduates strongly recommended the courses to anyone who is unable to attend a full-time university programme.
- The prize is given to the graduate or undergraduate student who submitted the best paper on an intelligence-related subject during the preceding year.
- And of the nine with a law degree, four were graduates of Harvard Law School.
- In reference to employment rates, the study finds that two years after graduation 95.8 per cent of graduates from undergraduate programs are employed.
- He has also won the three major teaching awards in his college and both the graduate and undergraduate teaching awards in his department.
- Training courses usually take graduates or school leavers any time after they've got their qualification.
Synonyms
degree holder, person with a degree
Bachelor of Arts, BA, Bachelor of Science, BSc, Master of Arts, MA, Master of Science, MSc, doctor, PhD, DPhil
1. 1.1North American A person who has received a high school diploma.
  she is 19, a graduate of Lincoln High
  Example sentencesExamples
  He was a graduate of Hebron High School and Hastings College.
  According to the National Center for Education Statistics, nearly 70 percent of high school graduates go on to some kind of college.
  Half of high school graduates receive an advanced education.
  Many high school graduates want to receive a university education abroad, but few people can afford this.
  He also challenged them to become more involved with urban school districts to help improve the quality of graduates from those high schools.
  All high school graduates can enter a community college, and if they make the grade.
  More than two-thirds of our high school graduates are going to college.
  She turns 18 on December 10 and graduates from high school - as an honor roll student - this year.
  Parents and employers still have no guarantees that high school graduates are able to even read their diplomas - in any known language.
  Now graduates of my old high school receive their diplomas at the combination track/football stadium adjacent to the campus.
  Large numbers of high school graduates are going on to college, and more adults are pursuing a college education.
  Female high school graduates are 16% more likely to go to college than their male counterparts.
  To receive a HOPE scholarship, Georgia high school graduates must have at least a B average in core curriculum courses.
  How many high school graduates know how to write a business plan?
  The fact that 47 percent of low-income high school graduates went immediately to college was good news.
  Today, some two-thirds of high school graduates go directly on to higher education.
  In our surveys, employers often express frustration with both college and high school graduates who, while well prepared, have absolutely no idea how to apply what they know.
  In many cases, elementary-school teachers were simply graduates of the local high school.
  It seems that high school graduates are enrolling in college without having learned prerequisite knowledge in reading, writing, and arithmetic.
  Employers and college professors who work with recent high school graduates are much more critical of public education than parents or the general public.
2North American A graduated cup, tube, flask, or measuring glass, used especially by chemists and pharmacists.

verb ˈɡradjʊeɪtˈɡradʒʊeɪtˈɡrædʒəˌweɪt

1no object Successfully complete an academic degree, course of training, or (in North America) high school.
he graduated from Glasgow University in 1990
he graduated in the summer with a 2:2 degree
Example sentencesExamples
- Students who fail to achieve minimum scores on state tests are prevented from graduating from high school with full academic diplomas.
- For example in the North Texas Tongan Catholic Community, one out of five students graduated from high school.
- By the time he graduated from high school his schoolmates had voted him ‘person most likely to succeed’.
- Students must now pass proficiency exams in order to enter and graduate from high school, replacing the system of social promotion.
- Between 1873 and 1933 only six students graduated from high school.
- Many students now graduate from high school having already completed many credits toward college.
- He graduated from High School in 1956 with the highest grade point average that anyone had ever achieved at his school.
- When she graduated from high school she went to a university not too far from where I lived.
- Other students who graduated received their national diplomas and BTech degrees.
- I am now in my last year of college and I am getting ready to graduate with a masters degree.
- Katie graduated from high school in 1996 and attended North Carolina State University the following autumn.
- It was a miracle that he'd finally graduated, receiving a degree in Criminal Law, more as a way of pleasing his father than actually wanting it.
- After three hard years of college, Rindy graduated with a degree in business.
- Some people have made it in a very short time with no training and others have graduated from university with degrees before climbing their career ladders.
- Only five out of 12 of Gina's siblings graduated from high school.
- He also went to night school and graduated from high school six months early, all so he could go racing.
- She graduated from high school in 1986 and then attended the University of Amsterdam.
- She was a straight-A student in high school and later attended and graduated from Harvard University.
- Two weeks after he graduated, he received his draft notice.
- The report recommended that states require students to take a minimum number of courses in core academic subjects in order to graduate from high school.
Synonyms
qualify, pass one's exams, pass, be certified, be licensed
take an academic degree, receive/get one's degree, become a graduate, complete one's studies
1. 1.1US informal with object Receive an academic degree from.
  he graduated Harvard in 1965
  Example sentencesExamples
  Well, how would his wife not know he didn't graduate college?
  At 23, she was employed by Newsweek-Paris shortly after graduating college with a degree in journalism.
  She graduated college with a degree in Art History but didn't work a day since receiving her diploma.
  The other half of the truth was that I was on the dean's list and preparing to graduate college with honors.
  Back in 1996, just after I graduated college, I drifted for a time rootless and aimless.
  I'm 21 years old, in three months I will be graduating college, and I have absolutely no idea what the future holds in store for me.
  As a result, she graduated college with a degree in engineering even though she couldn't draw a straight line.
  To me, this show should go on at least until Rory graduates college.
  After I graduated college I took a full time job as a phone reservationist for an airline which had me sitting at a phone for eight hours a day fielding phone calls from the American public.
  During college and right after graduating college, I spent many a Saturday at my parents' house, borrowing their laundry facilities.
  In fact, they had dated for over 6 years and they were planning to get married when she graduated college.
  She graduated college with a Master's degree and now works for and organization to stop assassinations.
  By the time I graduated college I'd figured out that I wasn't the typical marriageable Mormon woman.
  I just graduated college and I have to start paying back my student loan soon.
  He had only recently graduated college and been removed from our parent's insurance.
  They both published bestselling first novels called Less Than Zero before graduating college.
  When I graduated college, I didn't know what I wanted to do.
  She was bound and determined to have a job before graduating college.
  Before I graduated college I had worked on several campaigns and spent a summer interning.
  We want to end a system where youth from low-income areas are seven times less likely to graduate college than youth from high-income areas.
2. 1.2North American with object Confer a degree or other academic qualification on.
  the school graduated more than one hundred arts majors in its first year
  Example sentencesExamples
  The squadron graduated its first six fully qualified F - 16 pilots June 7, 2002.
  Murgel attended Louisiana State University and was graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering.
  The University of Bahrain graduated its first class in 1989.
  Most of those jobs have gone to India and China, whose universities graduate hundreds of thousands of engineers each year.
  Without this additional dimension in the analysis of students it is difficult to explain efforts by universities to graduate students faster.
  Synonyms
  qualify, pass one's exams, pass, be certified, be licensed
3. 1.3graduate to Move up to (a more advanced level or position)
  he started with motorbikes but now he's graduated to his first car
  Example sentencesExamples
  Later, he worked as a Parliamentary researcher before entering radio journalism in the late 1980s and graduating to television.
  Encouraged by her parents to follow her passions, Julie took dance classes from the age of two, moving on to a drama group and graduating to Scottish Youth Theatre.
  Now that I've given you tips on going faster with more control, you're probably graduating to the steeper stuff.
  For the first few years new recruits work under a senior analyst, mastering the fundamentals before graduating to handling fund management issues.
  Ross, 25, worked as a courier, driving a van around Scotland, before graduating to heavy vehicles this summer.
  Students will start with the basic moves before graduating to more difficult stamina-building sequences.
  Now there's growing talk of Dixon graduating to Formula One, the Holy Grail of motor racing.
  Since his debut in '99, Joe's career has yet to match all the early hype that surrounded him, seeming to remain in the land of promise, rather than graduating to domination and superstar status.
  Use 10% of the adult dose for one - to two-year-olds, graduating to 40% at age seven to eight and reaching full adult dose at 15 years.
  Except for this signing, the coaching staff have relied on players graduating to the first team from the club's training academy.
  Before graduating to the national side, they have worked hard to improve their sporting skills in streets, schools and subsequently at district, and state level, and later as members of junior national teams.
  They can also claim credit for the country graduating to more mature view of the relations between church and state and a clean up of the ‘minority’ of crooked judges and priests.
  Then, if a team was fortunate enough to graduate to the next level, the crew moved up as well.
  The big bucks come into play when you graduate to more advanced levels.
  Miss Park began her study of the piano at the age of four and gave her first full recital when she was seven, graduating to play the Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1 with the Seoul Symphony Orchestra at the tender age of nine.
  After four to six weeks, retake the step test to see if you've improved enough to justify graduating to the advanced workout.
  Initially working in cartoons, he graduated to sitcoms, before moving into drama.
  Loughman trained for three years before graduating to the dance company.
  Jo started on percussion and moved on to flute when a place became available and Matthew started on violin, graduating to the viola.
  Synonyms
  progress, advance, move up, go up, proceed, develop
  gain promotion, be promoted
2with object Arrange in a series or according to a scale.
the stones were graduated in height from the lowest near the entrance to the tallest opposite
Example sentencesExamples
- The inheritance tax is graduated into three classes according to the ‘nearness’ of family connection.
- That alternative could be a series of cards, graduated in height.
- A radical ministry which gained office with socialist support in 1895 and tried to introduce graduated income and inheritance taxes was brought down by the Senate.
- Any tax paid on inheritances above the exemption level is graduated, only rising to 55 percent for the largest estates.
- Unlike the income tax, which is graduated, the payroll tax is calculated as a flat percentage of income.
- Competition classes are graduated according to the length of the fish.
- It also alters the penalty system, in line with industry concerns, to graduate penalties according to the seriousness of the offence.
Synonyms
arrange in a series, arrange in order, order, group, classify, class, categorize, rank, grade, range
1. 2.1 Mark out (an instrument or container) in degrees or other proportionate gradations.
  the stem was graduated with marks for each hour
  Example sentencesExamples
  To assess flight ability, a tube containing a fly was placed above a small hole in a plastic top covering a 1-liter graduated cylinder.
  And the water remaining in the container was carefully measured to the nearest milliliter in a graduated cylinder.
  Flies were dropped into a 500-ml graduated cylinder whose inside wall was covered with paraffin oil.
  The standing ladder is graduated with eight horizontal lines marked from I to 8.
  The vertical arm is usually graduated with a scale for height adjustment.
  Insert the bottom of the pouch into a graduated biohazard container and open the drainage port.
  Synonyms
  calibrate, mark off, measure off/out, divide into degrees, grade
3with object Change (something, typically colour or shade) gradually or step by step.
the colour is graduated from the middle of the frame to the top
Example sentencesExamples
- Coloured lenses are trendy, especially if they have a graduated colour scheme.
- My sister, on the other hand, literally bought her living room from the catalog in graduated shades of tan.
- So it's really four graduated hearts, scaled to size, and then of course you'll need some decorative papers like these.
- She flicked her wrist like a magician and produced a little fan of plastic strips, in graduated colours like paint samples.

Origin

Late Middle English: from medieval Latin graduat- 'graduated', from graduare 'take a degree', from Latin gradus 'degree, step'.

Rhymes

undergraduate

Definition of graduate in US English:

graduate

nounˈɡrædʒ(ə)wətˈɡraj(ə)wət

1A person who has successfully completed a course of study or training, especially a person who has been awarded an undergraduate academic degree.
Example sentencesExamples
- Palmer is a 1997 graduate of Ohio State University with a bachelor's degree in nursing.
- Everyone else in the race was either an Oxbridge graduate or undergraduate.
- There is sufficient scope and depth here to support an independent course in a law school or in other undergraduate or graduate study.
- In reference to employment rates, the study finds that two years after graduation 95.8 per cent of graduates from undergraduate programs are employed.
- When the school term ended in May 1914, Hubble decided to pursue his first passion and so returned to university as a graduate student to study more astronomy.
- She has donated an annual €10,000 prize to encourage entrepreneurship in undergraduates, graduates and alumni.
- To land a job with a national governing body or team today, graduates need to study for a taught Masters degree first.
- He has also won the three major teaching awards in his college and both the graduate and undergraduate teaching awards in his department.
- And of the nine with a law degree, four were graduates of Harvard Law School.
- Many graduate and undergraduate students have worked with us on our radar work and we appreciate their valuable contributions.
- And both successful graduates strongly recommended the courses to anyone who is unable to attend a full-time university programme.
- The prize is given to the graduate or undergraduate student who submitted the best paper on an intelligence-related subject during the preceding year.
- He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Child Development, Test and Measurements, and Educational Psychology.
- Training courses usually take graduates or school leavers any time after they've got their qualification.
- The downtown campus offers a broad range of undergraduate and graduate courses.
- Some simply wanted to practice their English, while others hoped to obtain vocational training in law enforcement or pursue undergraduate or graduate degrees.
- The guests and public took tours of the place where currently over 500 undergraduate and graduate students are pursuing degrees in information technology and interactive arts.
- The participating graduates undergo intensive training and are presented with a unique opportunity to gain valuable commercial experience within an ambitious company.
- Reflective journals have prompted self-regulated or metacognitive ways of thinking in students in graduate and undergraduate education courses.
- Nine out of 10 professional archaeologists are graduates, but university training is not always suited to field archaeology.
Synonyms
degree holder, person with a degree
1. 1.1North American A person who has received a high school diploma.
  she is 19, a graduate of Lincoln High
  Example sentencesExamples
  He also challenged them to become more involved with urban school districts to help improve the quality of graduates from those high schools.
  All high school graduates can enter a community college, and if they make the grade.
  Large numbers of high school graduates are going on to college, and more adults are pursuing a college education.
  How many high school graduates know how to write a business plan?
  According to the National Center for Education Statistics, nearly 70 percent of high school graduates go on to some kind of college.
  He was a graduate of Hebron High School and Hastings College.
  Now graduates of my old high school receive their diplomas at the combination track/football stadium adjacent to the campus.
  In many cases, elementary-school teachers were simply graduates of the local high school.
  To receive a HOPE scholarship, Georgia high school graduates must have at least a B average in core curriculum courses.
  It seems that high school graduates are enrolling in college without having learned prerequisite knowledge in reading, writing, and arithmetic.
  She turns 18 on December 10 and graduates from high school - as an honor roll student - this year.
  Half of high school graduates receive an advanced education.
  The fact that 47 percent of low-income high school graduates went immediately to college was good news.
  In our surveys, employers often express frustration with both college and high school graduates who, while well prepared, have absolutely no idea how to apply what they know.
  More than two-thirds of our high school graduates are going to college.
  Employers and college professors who work with recent high school graduates are much more critical of public education than parents or the general public.
  Today, some two-thirds of high school graduates go directly on to higher education.
  Parents and employers still have no guarantees that high school graduates are able to even read their diplomas - in any known language.
  Many high school graduates want to receive a university education abroad, but few people can afford this.
  Female high school graduates are 16% more likely to go to college than their male counterparts.
2North American A graduated cup, tube, flask, or measuring glass, used especially by chemists and pharmacists.

verbˈɡrædʒəˌweɪtˈɡrajəˌwāt

1no object Successfully complete an academic degree, course of training, or high school.
I graduated from West Point in 1965
Example sentencesExamples
- Students must now pass proficiency exams in order to enter and graduate from high school, replacing the system of social promotion.
- She was a straight-A student in high school and later attended and graduated from Harvard University.
- After three hard years of college, Rindy graduated with a degree in business.
- He also went to night school and graduated from high school six months early, all so he could go racing.
- When she graduated from high school she went to a university not too far from where I lived.
- Other students who graduated received their national diplomas and BTech degrees.
- Some people have made it in a very short time with no training and others have graduated from university with degrees before climbing their career ladders.
- Students who fail to achieve minimum scores on state tests are prevented from graduating from high school with full academic diplomas.
- By the time he graduated from high school his schoolmates had voted him ‘person most likely to succeed’.
- It was a miracle that he'd finally graduated, receiving a degree in Criminal Law, more as a way of pleasing his father than actually wanting it.
- Only five out of 12 of Gina's siblings graduated from high school.
- For example in the North Texas Tongan Catholic Community, one out of five students graduated from high school.
- Between 1873 and 1933 only six students graduated from high school.
- The report recommended that states require students to take a minimum number of courses in core academic subjects in order to graduate from high school.
- Many students now graduate from high school having already completed many credits toward college.
- He graduated from High School in 1956 with the highest grade point average that anyone had ever achieved at his school.
- Katie graduated from high school in 1996 and attended North Carolina State University the following autumn.
- I am now in my last year of college and I am getting ready to graduate with a masters degree.
- Two weeks after he graduated, he received his draft notice.
- She graduated from high school in 1986 and then attended the University of Amsterdam.
Synonyms
qualify, pass one's exams, pass, be certified, be licensed
1. 1.1US informal with object Receive an academic degree from.
  she graduated college in 1970
  Example sentencesExamples
  Back in 1996, just after I graduated college, I drifted for a time rootless and aimless.
  Before I graduated college I had worked on several campaigns and spent a summer interning.
  As a result, she graduated college with a degree in engineering even though she couldn't draw a straight line.
  When I graduated college, I didn't know what I wanted to do.
  In fact, they had dated for over 6 years and they were planning to get married when she graduated college.
  We want to end a system where youth from low-income areas are seven times less likely to graduate college than youth from high-income areas.
  By the time I graduated college I'd figured out that I wasn't the typical marriageable Mormon woman.
  During college and right after graduating college, I spent many a Saturday at my parents' house, borrowing their laundry facilities.
  They both published bestselling first novels called Less Than Zero before graduating college.
  At 23, she was employed by Newsweek-Paris shortly after graduating college with a degree in journalism.
  She graduated college with a degree in Art History but didn't work a day since receiving her diploma.
  She graduated college with a Master's degree and now works for and organization to stop assassinations.
  He had only recently graduated college and been removed from our parent's insurance.
  I just graduated college and I have to start paying back my student loan soon.
  To me, this show should go on at least until Rory graduates college.
  Well, how would his wife not know he didn't graduate college?
  The other half of the truth was that I was on the dean's list and preparing to graduate college with honors.
  After I graduated college I took a full time job as a phone reservationist for an airline which had me sitting at a phone for eight hours a day fielding phone calls from the American public.
  I'm 21 years old, in three months I will be graduating college, and I have absolutely no idea what the future holds in store for me.
  She was bound and determined to have a job before graduating college.
2. 1.2North American with object Confer a degree or other academic qualification on.
  the school graduated more than one hundred arts majors in its first year
  Example sentencesExamples
  The squadron graduated its first six fully qualified F - 16 pilots June 7, 2002.
  Most of those jobs have gone to India and China, whose universities graduate hundreds of thousands of engineers each year.
  Murgel attended Louisiana State University and was graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering.
  The University of Bahrain graduated its first class in 1989.
  Without this additional dimension in the analysis of students it is difficult to explain efforts by universities to graduate students faster.
  Synonyms
  qualify, pass one's exams, pass, be certified, be licensed
3. 1.3graduate to Move up to (a more advanced level or position)
  he started with motorbikes but now he's graduated to his first car
  Example sentencesExamples
  For the first few years new recruits work under a senior analyst, mastering the fundamentals before graduating to handling fund management issues.
  Except for this signing, the coaching staff have relied on players graduating to the first team from the club's training academy.
  Ross, 25, worked as a courier, driving a van around Scotland, before graduating to heavy vehicles this summer.
  Before graduating to the national side, they have worked hard to improve their sporting skills in streets, schools and subsequently at district, and state level, and later as members of junior national teams.
  Jo started on percussion and moved on to flute when a place became available and Matthew started on violin, graduating to the viola.
  Use 10% of the adult dose for one - to two-year-olds, graduating to 40% at age seven to eight and reaching full adult dose at 15 years.
  Students will start with the basic moves before graduating to more difficult stamina-building sequences.
  Initially working in cartoons, he graduated to sitcoms, before moving into drama.
  The big bucks come into play when you graduate to more advanced levels.
  Now that I've given you tips on going faster with more control, you're probably graduating to the steeper stuff.
  After four to six weeks, retake the step test to see if you've improved enough to justify graduating to the advanced workout.
  Since his debut in '99, Joe's career has yet to match all the early hype that surrounded him, seeming to remain in the land of promise, rather than graduating to domination and superstar status.
  Later, he worked as a Parliamentary researcher before entering radio journalism in the late 1980s and graduating to television.
  Loughman trained for three years before graduating to the dance company.
  Then, if a team was fortunate enough to graduate to the next level, the crew moved up as well.
  Now there's growing talk of Dixon graduating to Formula One, the Holy Grail of motor racing.
  They can also claim credit for the country graduating to more mature view of the relations between church and state and a clean up of the ‘minority’ of crooked judges and priests.
  Encouraged by her parents to follow her passions, Julie took dance classes from the age of two, moving on to a drama group and graduating to Scottish Youth Theatre.
  Miss Park began her study of the piano at the age of four and gave her first full recital when she was seven, graduating to play the Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1 with the Seoul Symphony Orchestra at the tender age of nine.
  Synonyms
  progress, advance, move up, go up, proceed, develop
2with object Arrange in a series or according to a scale.
the stones were graduated in height from the lowest near the entrance to the tallest opposite
Example sentencesExamples
- Any tax paid on inheritances above the exemption level is graduated, only rising to 55 percent for the largest estates.
- That alternative could be a series of cards, graduated in height.
- A radical ministry which gained office with socialist support in 1895 and tried to introduce graduated income and inheritance taxes was brought down by the Senate.
- The inheritance tax is graduated into three classes according to the ‘nearness’ of family connection.
- Unlike the income tax, which is graduated, the payroll tax is calculated as a flat percentage of income.
- It also alters the penalty system, in line with industry concerns, to graduate penalties according to the seriousness of the offence.
- Competition classes are graduated according to the length of the fish.
Synonyms
arrange in a series, arrange in order, order, group, classify, class, categorize, rank, grade, range
1. 2.1 Mark out (an instrument or container) in degrees or other proportionate divisions.
  the stem was graduated with marks for each hour
  as adjective graduated cylinders
  Example sentencesExamples
  To assess flight ability, a tube containing a fly was placed above a small hole in a plastic top covering a 1-liter graduated cylinder.
  The vertical arm is usually graduated with a scale for height adjustment.
  Insert the bottom of the pouch into a graduated biohazard container and open the drainage port.
  Flies were dropped into a 500-ml graduated cylinder whose inside wall was covered with paraffin oil.
  And the water remaining in the container was carefully measured to the nearest milliliter in a graduated cylinder.
  The standing ladder is graduated with eight horizontal lines marked from I to 8.
  Synonyms
  calibrate, mark off, measure off, measure out, divide into degrees, grade
3with object Change (something, typically color or shade) gradually or step by step.
the color is graduated from the middle of the frame to the top
Example sentencesExamples
- She flicked her wrist like a magician and produced a little fan of plastic strips, in graduated colours like paint samples.
- Coloured lenses are trendy, especially if they have a graduated colour scheme.
- So it's really four graduated hearts, scaled to size, and then of course you'll need some decorative papers like these.
- My sister, on the other hand, literally bought her living room from the catalog in graduated shades of tan.

adjectiveˈɡraj(ə)wətˈɡrædʒ(ə)wət

1attributive Relating to graduate school education.
the graduate faculty
1. 1.1 Having graduated from a school or academic program.
  a graduate electrical engineer

Usage

The traditional use is “be graduated from”: she will be graduated from medical school in June. However, it is now more common to say “graduate from”: she will graduate from medical school in June. The use of graduate as a transitive verb, as in he graduated high school last week, is increasingly common, especially in speech, but is considered incorrect by most traditionalists

Origin

Late Middle English: from medieval Latin graduat- ‘graduated’, from graduare ‘take a degree’, from Latin gradus ‘degree, step’.

单词	graduate
释义	Definition of graduate in English: graduate noun ˈɡradʒʊətˈɡradjʊətˈɡrædʒ(ə)wət 1A person who has successfully completed a course of study or training, especially a person who has been awarded an undergraduate or first academic degree. Example sentencesExamples The guests and public took tours of the place where currently over 500 undergraduate and graduate students are pursuing degrees in information technology and interactive arts. When the school term ended in May 1914, Hubble decided to pursue his first passion and so returned to university as a graduate student to study more astronomy. Everyone else in the race was either an Oxbridge graduate or undergraduate. Nine out of 10 professional archaeologists are graduates, but university training is not always suited to field archaeology. To land a job with a national governing body or team today, graduates need to study for a taught Masters degree first. She has donated an annual €10,000 prize to encourage entrepreneurship in undergraduates, graduates and alumni. Reflective journals have prompted self-regulated or metacognitive ways of thinking in students in graduate and undergraduate education courses. Palmer is a 1997 graduate of Ohio State University with a bachelor's degree in nursing. There is sufficient scope and depth here to support an independent course in a law school or in other undergraduate or graduate study. The participating graduates undergo intensive training and are presented with a unique opportunity to gain valuable commercial experience within an ambitious company. The downtown campus offers a broad range of undergraduate and graduate courses. Some simply wanted to practice their English, while others hoped to obtain vocational training in law enforcement or pursue undergraduate or graduate degrees. Many graduate and undergraduate students have worked with us on our radar work and we appreciate their valuable contributions. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Child Development, Test and Measurements, and Educational Psychology. And both successful graduates strongly recommended the courses to anyone who is unable to attend a full-time university programme. The prize is given to the graduate or undergraduate student who submitted the best paper on an intelligence-related subject during the preceding year. And of the nine with a law degree, four were graduates of Harvard Law School. In reference to employment rates, the study finds that two years after graduation 95.8 per cent of graduates from undergraduate programs are employed. He has also won the three major teaching awards in his college and both the graduate and undergraduate teaching awards in his department. Training courses usually take graduates or school leavers any time after they've got their qualification. Synonyms degree holder, person with a degree Bachelor of Arts, BA, Bachelor of Science, BSc, Master of Arts, MA, Master of Science, MSc, doctor, PhD, DPhil 1.1North American A person who has received a high school diploma. she is 19, a graduate of Lincoln High Example sentencesExamples He was a graduate of Hebron High School and Hastings College. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, nearly 70 percent of high school graduates go on to some kind of college. Half of high school graduates receive an advanced education. Many high school graduates want to receive a university education abroad, but few people can afford this. He also challenged them to become more involved with urban school districts to help improve the quality of graduates from those high schools. All high school graduates can enter a community college, and if they make the grade. More than two-thirds of our high school graduates are going to college. She turns 18 on December 10 and graduates from high school - as an honor roll student - this year. Parents and employers still have no guarantees that high school graduates are able to even read their diplomas - in any known language. Now graduates of my old high school receive their diplomas at the combination track/football stadium adjacent to the campus. Large numbers of high school graduates are going on to college, and more adults are pursuing a college education. Female high school graduates are 16% more likely to go to college than their male counterparts. To receive a HOPE scholarship, Georgia high school graduates must have at least a B average in core curriculum courses. How many high school graduates know how to write a business plan? The fact that 47 percent of low-income high school graduates went immediately to college was good news. Today, some two-thirds of high school graduates go directly on to higher education. In our surveys, employers often express frustration with both college and high school graduates who, while well prepared, have absolutely no idea how to apply what they know. In many cases, elementary-school teachers were simply graduates of the local high school. It seems that high school graduates are enrolling in college without having learned prerequisite knowledge in reading, writing, and arithmetic. Employers and college professors who work with recent high school graduates are much more critical of public education than parents or the general public. 2North American A graduated cup, tube, flask, or measuring glass, used especially by chemists and pharmacists. verb ˈɡradjʊeɪtˈɡradʒʊeɪtˈɡrædʒəˌweɪt 1no object Successfully complete an academic degree, course of training, or (in North America) high school. he graduated from Glasgow University in 1990 he graduated in the summer with a 2:2 degree Example sentencesExamples Students who fail to achieve minimum scores on state tests are prevented from graduating from high school with full academic diplomas. For example in the North Texas Tongan Catholic Community, one out of five students graduated from high school. By the time he graduated from high school his schoolmates had voted him ‘person most likely to succeed’. Students must now pass proficiency exams in order to enter and graduate from high school, replacing the system of social promotion. Between 1873 and 1933 only six students graduated from high school. Many students now graduate from high school having already completed many credits toward college. He graduated from High School in 1956 with the highest grade point average that anyone had ever achieved at his school. When she graduated from high school she went to a university not too far from where I lived. Other students who graduated received their national diplomas and BTech degrees. I am now in my last year of college and I am getting ready to graduate with a masters degree. Katie graduated from high school in 1996 and attended North Carolina State University the following autumn. It was a miracle that he'd finally graduated, receiving a degree in Criminal Law, more as a way of pleasing his father than actually wanting it. After three hard years of college, Rindy graduated with a degree in business. Some people have made it in a very short time with no training and others have graduated from university with degrees before climbing their career ladders. Only five out of 12 of Gina's siblings graduated from high school. He also went to night school and graduated from high school six months early, all so he could go racing. She graduated from high school in 1986 and then attended the University of Amsterdam. She was a straight-A student in high school and later attended and graduated from Harvard University. Two weeks after he graduated, he received his draft notice. The report recommended that states require students to take a minimum number of courses in core academic subjects in order to graduate from high school. Synonyms qualify, pass one's exams, pass, be certified, be licensed take an academic degree, receive/get one's degree, become a graduate, complete one's studies 1.1US informal with object Receive an academic degree from. he graduated Harvard in 1965 Example sentencesExamples Well, how would his wife not know he didn't graduate college? At 23, she was employed by Newsweek-Paris shortly after graduating college with a degree in journalism. She graduated college with a degree in Art History but didn't work a day since receiving her diploma. The other half of the truth was that I was on the dean's list and preparing to graduate college with honors. Back in 1996, just after I graduated college, I drifted for a time rootless and aimless. I'm 21 years old, in three months I will be graduating college, and I have absolutely no idea what the future holds in store for me. As a result, she graduated college with a degree in engineering even though she couldn't draw a straight line. To me, this show should go on at least until Rory graduates college. After I graduated college I took a full time job as a phone reservationist for an airline which had me sitting at a phone for eight hours a day fielding phone calls from the American public. During college and right after graduating college, I spent many a Saturday at my parents' house, borrowing their laundry facilities. In fact, they had dated for over 6 years and they were planning to get married when she graduated college. She graduated college with a Master's degree and now works for and organization to stop assassinations. By the time I graduated college I'd figured out that I wasn't the typical marriageable Mormon woman. I just graduated college and I have to start paying back my student loan soon. He had only recently graduated college and been removed from our parent's insurance. They both published bestselling first novels called Less Than Zero before graduating college. When I graduated college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. She was bound and determined to have a job before graduating college. Before I graduated college I had worked on several campaigns and spent a summer interning. We want to end a system where youth from low-income areas are seven times less likely to graduate college than youth from high-income areas. 1.2North American with object Confer a degree or other academic qualification on. the school graduated more than one hundred arts majors in its first year Example sentencesExamples The squadron graduated its first six fully qualified F - 16 pilots June 7, 2002. Murgel attended Louisiana State University and was graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering. The University of Bahrain graduated its first class in 1989. Most of those jobs have gone to India and China, whose universities graduate hundreds of thousands of engineers each year. Without this additional dimension in the analysis of students it is difficult to explain efforts by universities to graduate students faster. Synonyms qualify, pass one's exams, pass, be certified, be licensed 1.3graduate to Move up to (a more advanced level or position) he started with motorbikes but now he's graduated to his first car Example sentencesExamples Later, he worked as a Parliamentary researcher before entering radio journalism in the late 1980s and graduating to television. Encouraged by her parents to follow her passions, Julie took dance classes from the age of two, moving on to a drama group and graduating to Scottish Youth Theatre. Now that I've given you tips on going faster with more control, you're probably graduating to the steeper stuff. For the first few years new recruits work under a senior analyst, mastering the fundamentals before graduating to handling fund management issues. Ross, 25, worked as a courier, driving a van around Scotland, before graduating to heavy vehicles this summer. Students will start with the basic moves before graduating to more difficult stamina-building sequences. Now there's growing talk of Dixon graduating to Formula One, the Holy Grail of motor racing. Since his debut in '99, Joe's career has yet to match all the early hype that surrounded him, seeming to remain in the land of promise, rather than graduating to domination and superstar status. Use 10% of the adult dose for one - to two-year-olds, graduating to 40% at age seven to eight and reaching full adult dose at 15 years. Except for this signing, the coaching staff have relied on players graduating to the first team from the club's training academy. Before graduating to the national side, they have worked hard to improve their sporting skills in streets, schools and subsequently at district, and state level, and later as members of junior national teams. They can also claim credit for the country graduating to more mature view of the relations between church and state and a clean up of the ‘minority’ of crooked judges and priests. Then, if a team was fortunate enough to graduate to the next level, the crew moved up as well. The big bucks come into play when you graduate to more advanced levels. Miss Park began her study of the piano at the age of four and gave her first full recital when she was seven, graduating to play the Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1 with the Seoul Symphony Orchestra at the tender age of nine. After four to six weeks, retake the step test to see if you've improved enough to justify graduating to the advanced workout. Initially working in cartoons, he graduated to sitcoms, before moving into drama. Loughman trained for three years before graduating to the dance company. Jo started on percussion and moved on to flute when a place became available and Matthew started on violin, graduating to the viola. Synonyms progress, advance, move up, go up, proceed, develop gain promotion, be promoted 2with object Arrange in a series or according to a scale. the stones were graduated in height from the lowest near the entrance to the tallest opposite Example sentencesExamples The inheritance tax is graduated into three classes according to the ‘nearness’ of family connection. That alternative could be a series of cards, graduated in height. A radical ministry which gained office with socialist support in 1895 and tried to introduce graduated income and inheritance taxes was brought down by the Senate. Any tax paid on inheritances above the exemption level is graduated, only rising to 55 percent for the largest estates. Unlike the income tax, which is graduated, the payroll tax is calculated as a flat percentage of income. Competition classes are graduated according to the length of the fish. It also alters the penalty system, in line with industry concerns, to graduate penalties according to the seriousness of the offence. Synonyms arrange in a series, arrange in order, order, group, classify, class, categorize, rank, grade, range 2.1 Mark out (an instrument or container) in degrees or other proportionate gradations. the stem was graduated with marks for each hour Example sentencesExamples To assess flight ability, a tube containing a fly was placed above a small hole in a plastic top covering a 1-liter graduated cylinder. And the water remaining in the container was carefully measured to the nearest milliliter in a graduated cylinder. Flies were dropped into a 500-ml graduated cylinder whose inside wall was covered with paraffin oil. The standing ladder is graduated with eight horizontal lines marked from I to 8. The vertical arm is usually graduated with a scale for height adjustment. Insert the bottom of the pouch into a graduated biohazard container and open the drainage port. Synonyms calibrate, mark off, measure off/out, divide into degrees, grade 3with object Change (something, typically colour or shade) gradually or step by step. the colour is graduated from the middle of the frame to the top Example sentencesExamples Coloured lenses are trendy, especially if they have a graduated colour scheme. My sister, on the other hand, literally bought her living room from the catalog in graduated shades of tan. So it's really four graduated hearts, scaled to size, and then of course you'll need some decorative papers like these. She flicked her wrist like a magician and produced a little fan of plastic strips, in graduated colours like paint samples. Origin Late Middle English: from medieval Latin graduat- 'graduated', from graduare 'take a degree', from Latin gradus 'degree, step'. Rhymes undergraduate Definition of graduate in US English: graduate nounˈɡrædʒ(ə)wətˈɡraj(ə)wət 1A person who has successfully completed a course of study or training, especially a person who has been awarded an undergraduate academic degree. Example sentencesExamples Palmer is a 1997 graduate of Ohio State University with a bachelor's degree in nursing. Everyone else in the race was either an Oxbridge graduate or undergraduate. There is sufficient scope and depth here to support an independent course in a law school or in other undergraduate or graduate study. In reference to employment rates, the study finds that two years after graduation 95.8 per cent of graduates from undergraduate programs are employed. When the school term ended in May 1914, Hubble decided to pursue his first passion and so returned to university as a graduate student to study more astronomy. She has donated an annual €10,000 prize to encourage entrepreneurship in undergraduates, graduates and alumni. To land a job with a national governing body or team today, graduates need to study for a taught Masters degree first. He has also won the three major teaching awards in his college and both the graduate and undergraduate teaching awards in his department. And of the nine with a law degree, four were graduates of Harvard Law School. Many graduate and undergraduate students have worked with us on our radar work and we appreciate their valuable contributions. And both successful graduates strongly recommended the courses to anyone who is unable to attend a full-time university programme. The prize is given to the graduate or undergraduate student who submitted the best paper on an intelligence-related subject during the preceding year. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Child Development, Test and Measurements, and Educational Psychology. Training courses usually take graduates or school leavers any time after they've got their qualification. The downtown campus offers a broad range of undergraduate and graduate courses. Some simply wanted to practice their English, while others hoped to obtain vocational training in law enforcement or pursue undergraduate or graduate degrees. The guests and public took tours of the place where currently over 500 undergraduate and graduate students are pursuing degrees in information technology and interactive arts. The participating graduates undergo intensive training and are presented with a unique opportunity to gain valuable commercial experience within an ambitious company. Reflective journals have prompted self-regulated or metacognitive ways of thinking in students in graduate and undergraduate education courses. Nine out of 10 professional archaeologists are graduates, but university training is not always suited to field archaeology. Synonyms degree holder, person with a degree 1.1North American A person who has received a high school diploma. she is 19, a graduate of Lincoln High Example sentencesExamples He also challenged them to become more involved with urban school districts to help improve the quality of graduates from those high schools. All high school graduates can enter a community college, and if they make the grade. Large numbers of high school graduates are going on to college, and more adults are pursuing a college education. How many high school graduates know how to write a business plan? According to the National Center for Education Statistics, nearly 70 percent of high school graduates go on to some kind of college. He was a graduate of Hebron High School and Hastings College. Now graduates of my old high school receive their diplomas at the combination track/football stadium adjacent to the campus. In many cases, elementary-school teachers were simply graduates of the local high school. To receive a HOPE scholarship, Georgia high school graduates must have at least a B average in core curriculum courses. It seems that high school graduates are enrolling in college without having learned prerequisite knowledge in reading, writing, and arithmetic. She turns 18 on December 10 and graduates from high school - as an honor roll student - this year. Half of high school graduates receive an advanced education. The fact that 47 percent of low-income high school graduates went immediately to college was good news. In our surveys, employers often express frustration with both college and high school graduates who, while well prepared, have absolutely no idea how to apply what they know. More than two-thirds of our high school graduates are going to college. Employers and college professors who work with recent high school graduates are much more critical of public education than parents or the general public. Today, some two-thirds of high school graduates go directly on to higher education. Parents and employers still have no guarantees that high school graduates are able to even read their diplomas - in any known language. Many high school graduates want to receive a university education abroad, but few people can afford this. Female high school graduates are 16% more likely to go to college than their male counterparts. 2North American A graduated cup, tube, flask, or measuring glass, used especially by chemists and pharmacists. verbˈɡrædʒəˌweɪtˈɡrajəˌwāt 1no object Successfully complete an academic degree, course of training, or high school. I graduated from West Point in 1965 Example sentencesExamples Students must now pass proficiency exams in order to enter and graduate from high school, replacing the system of social promotion. She was a straight-A student in high school and later attended and graduated from Harvard University. After three hard years of college, Rindy graduated with a degree in business. He also went to night school and graduated from high school six months early, all so he could go racing. When she graduated from high school she went to a university not too far from where I lived. Other students who graduated received their national diplomas and BTech degrees. Some people have made it in a very short time with no training and others have graduated from university with degrees before climbing their career ladders. Students who fail to achieve minimum scores on state tests are prevented from graduating from high school with full academic diplomas. By the time he graduated from high school his schoolmates had voted him ‘person most likely to succeed’. It was a miracle that he'd finally graduated, receiving a degree in Criminal Law, more as a way of pleasing his father than actually wanting it. Only five out of 12 of Gina's siblings graduated from high school. For example in the North Texas Tongan Catholic Community, one out of five students graduated from high school. Between 1873 and 1933 only six students graduated from high school. The report recommended that states require students to take a minimum number of courses in core academic subjects in order to graduate from high school. Many students now graduate from high school having already completed many credits toward college. He graduated from High School in 1956 with the highest grade point average that anyone had ever achieved at his school. Katie graduated from high school in 1996 and attended North Carolina State University the following autumn. I am now in my last year of college and I am getting ready to graduate with a masters degree. Two weeks after he graduated, he received his draft notice. She graduated from high school in 1986 and then attended the University of Amsterdam. Synonyms qualify, pass one's exams, pass, be certified, be licensed 1.1US informal with object Receive an academic degree from. she graduated college in 1970 Example sentencesExamples Back in 1996, just after I graduated college, I drifted for a time rootless and aimless. Before I graduated college I had worked on several campaigns and spent a summer interning. As a result, she graduated college with a degree in engineering even though she couldn't draw a straight line. When I graduated college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. In fact, they had dated for over 6 years and they were planning to get married when she graduated college. We want to end a system where youth from low-income areas are seven times less likely to graduate college than youth from high-income areas. By the time I graduated college I'd figured out that I wasn't the typical marriageable Mormon woman. During college and right after graduating college, I spent many a Saturday at my parents' house, borrowing their laundry facilities. They both published bestselling first novels called Less Than Zero before graduating college. At 23, she was employed by Newsweek-Paris shortly after graduating college with a degree in journalism. She graduated college with a degree in Art History but didn't work a day since receiving her diploma. She graduated college with a Master's degree and now works for and organization to stop assassinations. He had only recently graduated college and been removed from our parent's insurance. I just graduated college and I have to start paying back my student loan soon. To me, this show should go on at least until Rory graduates college. Well, how would his wife not know he didn't graduate college? The other half of the truth was that I was on the dean's list and preparing to graduate college with honors. After I graduated college I took a full time job as a phone reservationist for an airline which had me sitting at a phone for eight hours a day fielding phone calls from the American public. I'm 21 years old, in three months I will be graduating college, and I have absolutely no idea what the future holds in store for me. She was bound and determined to have a job before graduating college. 1.2North American with object Confer a degree or other academic qualification on. the school graduated more than one hundred arts majors in its first year Example sentencesExamples The squadron graduated its first six fully qualified F - 16 pilots June 7, 2002. Most of those jobs have gone to India and China, whose universities graduate hundreds of thousands of engineers each year. Murgel attended Louisiana State University and was graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering. The University of Bahrain graduated its first class in 1989. Without this additional dimension in the analysis of students it is difficult to explain efforts by universities to graduate students faster. Synonyms qualify, pass one's exams, pass, be certified, be licensed 1.3graduate to Move up to (a more advanced level or position) he started with motorbikes but now he's graduated to his first car Example sentencesExamples For the first few years new recruits work under a senior analyst, mastering the fundamentals before graduating to handling fund management issues. Except for this signing, the coaching staff have relied on players graduating to the first team from the club's training academy. Ross, 25, worked as a courier, driving a van around Scotland, before graduating to heavy vehicles this summer. Before graduating to the national side, they have worked hard to improve their sporting skills in streets, schools and subsequently at district, and state level, and later as members of junior national teams. Jo started on percussion and moved on to flute when a place became available and Matthew started on violin, graduating to the viola. Use 10% of the adult dose for one - to two-year-olds, graduating to 40% at age seven to eight and reaching full adult dose at 15 years. Students will start with the basic moves before graduating to more difficult stamina-building sequences. Initially working in cartoons, he graduated to sitcoms, before moving into drama. The big bucks come into play when you graduate to more advanced levels. Now that I've given you tips on going faster with more control, you're probably graduating to the steeper stuff. After four to six weeks, retake the step test to see if you've improved enough to justify graduating to the advanced workout. Since his debut in '99, Joe's career has yet to match all the early hype that surrounded him, seeming to remain in the land of promise, rather than graduating to domination and superstar status. Later, he worked as a Parliamentary researcher before entering radio journalism in the late 1980s and graduating to television. Loughman trained for three years before graduating to the dance company. Then, if a team was fortunate enough to graduate to the next level, the crew moved up as well. Now there's growing talk of Dixon graduating to Formula One, the Holy Grail of motor racing. They can also claim credit for the country graduating to more mature view of the relations between church and state and a clean up of the ‘minority’ of crooked judges and priests. Encouraged by her parents to follow her passions, Julie took dance classes from the age of two, moving on to a drama group and graduating to Scottish Youth Theatre. Miss Park began her study of the piano at the age of four and gave her first full recital when she was seven, graduating to play the Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1 with the Seoul Symphony Orchestra at the tender age of nine. Synonyms progress, advance, move up, go up, proceed, develop 2with object Arrange in a series or according to a scale. the stones were graduated in height from the lowest near the entrance to the tallest opposite Example sentencesExamples Any tax paid on inheritances above the exemption level is graduated, only rising to 55 percent for the largest estates. That alternative could be a series of cards, graduated in height. A radical ministry which gained office with socialist support in 1895 and tried to introduce graduated income and inheritance taxes was brought down by the Senate. The inheritance tax is graduated into three classes according to the ‘nearness’ of family connection. Unlike the income tax, which is graduated, the payroll tax is calculated as a flat percentage of income. It also alters the penalty system, in line with industry concerns, to graduate penalties according to the seriousness of the offence. Competition classes are graduated according to the length of the fish. Synonyms arrange in a series, arrange in order, order, group, classify, class, categorize, rank, grade, range 2.1 Mark out (an instrument or container) in degrees or other proportionate divisions. the stem was graduated with marks for each hour as adjective graduated cylinders Example sentencesExamples To assess flight ability, a tube containing a fly was placed above a small hole in a plastic top covering a 1-liter graduated cylinder. The vertical arm is usually graduated with a scale for height adjustment. Insert the bottom of the pouch into a graduated biohazard container and open the drainage port. Flies were dropped into a 500-ml graduated cylinder whose inside wall was covered with paraffin oil. And the water remaining in the container was carefully measured to the nearest milliliter in a graduated cylinder. The standing ladder is graduated with eight horizontal lines marked from I to 8. Synonyms calibrate, mark off, measure off, measure out, divide into degrees, grade 3with object Change (something, typically color or shade) gradually or step by step. the color is graduated from the middle of the frame to the top Example sentencesExamples She flicked her wrist like a magician and produced a little fan of plastic strips, in graduated colours like paint samples. Coloured lenses are trendy, especially if they have a graduated colour scheme. So it's really four graduated hearts, scaled to size, and then of course you'll need some decorative papers like these. My sister, on the other hand, literally bought her living room from the catalog in graduated shades of tan. adjectiveˈɡraj(ə)wətˈɡrædʒ(ə)wət 1attributive Relating to graduate school education. the graduate faculty 1.1 Having graduated from a school or academic program. a graduate electrical engineer Usage The traditional use is “be graduated from”: she will be graduated from medical school in June. However, it is now more common to say “graduate from”: she will graduate from medical school in June. The use of graduate as a transitive verb, as in he graduated high school last week, is increasingly common, especially in speech, but is considered incorrect by most traditionalists Origin Late Middle English: from medieval Latin graduat- ‘graduated’, from graduare ‘take a degree’, from Latin gradus ‘degree, step’.
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