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grad·u·ate
I. \ˈgraj(ə)wə̇]t, -jəˌwā], usu ]d.+V\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English graduat, from Medieval Latin graduatus, from past participle of graduare
1.
a. : one that has received an academic degree, a diploma, or a certificate
< a college graduate >
< a high school graduate >
also : a graduate student
< in all courses open to graduates only — University of Minnesota Bulletin >
b. : one who has qualified in a particular field or for a particular position
< the expert planner, often an economist or a graduate of some branch of social service — M.B.Smith >
c. : one who has passed through a significant or unusual and especially powerful experience often associated with an institution
< a graduate of the Warsaw ghetto >
< a reformatory graduate >
2. : a graduated cup, cylinder, or flask
II. adjective
Etymology: Middle English graduat, from Medieval Latin graduatus, past participle of graduare
1.
a. : holding an academic or professional degree, diploma, or certificate
< a graduate physician >
< a graduate economist >
< a graduate pilot >
b. : of, relating to, or engaged in studies that go beyond the first or bachelor's degree and are usually specialized or professional
< graduate student >
< graduate course >
2. : arranged by degrees : graduated
III. \-jəˌwāt, usu -ād.+V\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Medieval Latin graduatus, past participle of graduare, from Latin gradus step, degree — more at grade
transitive verb
1.
a. : to grant an academic or professional degree, diploma, or certificate to
< expect to graduate approximately 380,000 this year — A.W.Griswold >
: dismiss with such a degree, diploma, or certificate
< graduated from the university with honors >
b. : to grant the right to go or concede the completion of the qualifications for going (as from an elementary school) at the end of the course or last grade
< many citizens were never graduated from high school >
c. : to move up to the next school grade
< graduate the boy from the third to the fourth grade >
2. : to qualify as proficient or learned (as in a vice or other practice)
3.
a. : to mark with degrees (as the scale of a thermometer)
b. : to divide into or arrange in regular or proportional steps, grades, gradations, or intervals (as punishments in relation to crimes)
4. obsolete : temper, modify : improve the grade of
5. : to concentrate (a liquid) by graduation
intransitive verb
1.
a. : to receive from a university, college, or school an academic degree, a diploma, or a certificate denoting fulfillment of requirements leading to it : become a graduate
< graduate from the university >
< graduate from divinity school >
< graduate with honors >
b. : to qualify in a particular field or for a particular position (as after special training or experience)
< graduated as a seaman >
< graduated as a chef >
c. : to pass from one stage of experience, proficiency, or prestige to or into another usually higher
< began as a boy to gather stamps, coins and butterflies, then graduated into a connoisseur of books in general — G.F.Whicher >
< from the comics they soon graduate to Treasure Island and Robinson Crusoe — Eamon Ryan >
2. : to pass by degrees : change gradually : shade off
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