graduate
adjective
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L337142 on Wikidata ↗verb
- complete an academic degree
- move from one level to the next
noun
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L7440 on Wikidata ↗Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæd͡ʒuət/ / /ˈɡɹædjuət/ / /ˈɡɹæd͡ʒuɪt/ / /ˈɡɹædjueɪt/ / /ˈɡɹæd͡ʒueɪt/
adj
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). The noun is originally derived within Latin from the adjective via substantivization, see -ate (noun-forming suffix). Sense 10 of the verb, relating to Japanese entertainment, is a semantic loan from Japanese 卒業 (sotsugyō).
- graduated, arranged by degrees
- holding an academic degree
- relating to an academic degree
noun
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). The noun is originally derived within Latin from the adjective via substantivization, see -ate (noun-forming suffix). Sense 10 of the verb, relating to Japanese entertainment, is a semantic loan from Japanese 卒業 (sotsugyō).
- 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.”
- A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school.
- A person who is recognized as having completed any level of education.
- A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English graduaten (“to graduate”), from (adjective) graduat(e) (also used as the past participle of graduaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), from Medieval Latin graduātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
- 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.”
“Trisha graduated from college.”
- To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution).
“Trisha graduated college.”
- To certify (a student) as having earned a degree
“Indiana University graduated the student.”
“The college graduated him as soon as he was no longer eligible to play under NCAA rules.”
- To mark (something) with degrees; to divide into regular steps or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.
- To change gradually.
“As the species graduate into each other, both in form and in habits, from the grass-eating Geese to the fish-eating Harelds, it is difficult, […] to divide this large group into sections.”
“Yadav, born Bharat Kalicharan, was a petty thief who had graduated to bigger crimes, terrorising Kasturba Nagar, on the edge of the city of Nagpur, in Maharashtra, from the 1990s until his death.”
- To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of.
“to graduate the heat of an oven”
“Dyers, who advance and graduate their colours with salts.”
- To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
- To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
- To approve (a feature) for general release.
“We have graduated the new machine-learning features and will roll them out tomorrow.”
- Of an idol: to exit a group; or of a virtual YouTuber, to leave a management agency; usually accompanied with "graduation ceremony" send-offs, increased focus on the leaving member, and the like.
“Fans speculate that she was forced to graduate due to harassment and doxxing by stalkers and haters.”