graduate
A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
Example
“If the government wants graduates to stay in the country they should offer more incentives.”
Other meanings
A person who is recognized as having completed any level of education.
A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring.
Synonyms
- alum
Related words
- Christmas graduate
- graduate engineer
- graduate nurse
- graduate school
- graduate student
- graduate student descent
- graduate tax
- graduate thesis
- post-graduate
- pre-graduate
- graduator
- graduateness
Example sentences
Word history
From Medieval Latin "graduātus" (graduated, graduate).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “graduate” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.