graduate
Forms
- Plural
- graduates
- Comparative
- more graduate
- Superlative
- most graduate
- present (v1)
- graduate
- past (v2)
- graduated
- past participle (v3)
- graduated
- present participle
- graduating
- 3rd person singular
- graduates
Definitions
1.A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
- If the government wants graduates to stay in the country they should offer more incentives.
2.A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school.
3.A person who is recognized as having completed any level of education.
4.A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring.
1.graduated, arranged by degrees
2.holding an academic degree
3.relating to an academic degree
1.To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
- The man graduated in 1967.
- After graduating from Princeton University, he earned a law degree in Canada, then worked as an environmental lawyer in Israel before settling on the south side of Youngstown.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2407
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English graduat(e) (“(noun) a graduate of a university; (adjective) graduate, having graduated”, also used as the past participle of graduaten (“to graduate”)), borrowed from Medieval Latin graduātus (“graduated, graduate”), perfect passive participle of graduō (“to graduate”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from gradus (“step”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).