graduate

Meanings

Noun

  • A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
  • 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.

Adjective

Verb

  • To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
  • To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution).
  • To certify (a student) as having earned a degree
  • 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.
  • To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of.
  • To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
  • To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
  • 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.

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Origin

  • From Latin graduātus, from gradus.

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