graduate
pronunciation
How to pronounce graduate in British English:
UK [ˈɡrædʒuət , ˈɡrædʒueɪt]
How to pronounce graduate in American English:
US [ˈɡrædʒuət , ˈɡrædʒueɪt]
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- Noun:
- a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)
- a measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume; a glass container (cup or cylinder or flask) whose sides are marked with or divided into amounts
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- Verb:
- receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies
- confer an academic degree upon
- make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring
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- Adjective:
- of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree
Word Origin
- graduate (n.)
- early 15c., "one who holds a degree" (originally with man; as a stand-alone noun from mid-15c.), from Medieval Latin graduatus, past participle of graduari "to take a degree," from Latin gradus "step, grade" (see grade (n.)). As an adjective, from late 15c.
- graduate (v.)
- early 15c., "to confer a university degree upon," from Medieval Latin graduatus (see graduate (n.)). Intransitive sense from 1807. Related: Graduated; graduating.
Example
- 1. None of them managed to graduate from high school .
- 2. Similarly , companies have learned not to cut graduate recruitment .
- 3. Then 22 and only a semester shy of graduation , he contacted the american colleges that had accepted him to graduate school .
- 4. Students graduate with crippling debts .
- 5. The graduate tax is such an idea .