Meaning

10 senses
  1. (ergative, intransitive)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.

    absolvieren, graduieren

    око́нчитьokónčitʹ

  2. (proscribed, transitive)To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution).

    Trisha graduated college.

  3. (transitive)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.

    дипломи́роватьdiplomírovatʹ

  4. (transitive)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.

    graduieren

    градуи́роватьgraduírovatʹ

    make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring

  5. (intransitive)To change gradually.

    sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz

  6. 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

  7. To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.

  8. (intransitive)To taper, as the tail of certain birds.

  9. (transitive)To approve (a feature) for general release.

    We have graduated the new machine-learning features and will roll them out tomorrow.

  10. (Japanese, intransitive)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.

Examples

874 sentences
  1. Tom doesn't have a graduate degree.

    У Тома немає вищої освіти.

    deTom hat keinen Universitätsabschluss.

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  2. You're a graduate student, aren't you?

    Ти ж аспірант?

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  3. When did you graduate from high school?

    Коли ти закінчив школу?

    ruКогда ты закончил школу?

    deWann haben Sie Ihren Schulabschluss gemacht?

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  4. If you fail this class, you won't be able to graduate.

    Якщо ти не здаш цей предмет, ти не зможеш закінчити університет.

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  5. I never graduated from high school.

    Я так і не закінчив середню школу.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
to be recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree:
transitive: to certify (a student) as having earned a degree:
to mark a scale on (something) so it can be used for measuring:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to be recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree:

Origin

From Middle English graduaten (“to graduate”), from (adjective) graduat(e) (also used as t

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.

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Forms

graduates, graduating, graduated, graduated
Base formgraduate · to graduate
3rd person singulargraduates
Present participlegraduating
Past simplegraduated
Past participlegraduated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygraduate
he, she, itgraduates

Past simpleLesson

all personsgraduated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave graduated
he, she, ithas graduated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill graduate

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring:calibratefine-tune

Word family

4 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • graduated from college
  • graduated from high
  • graduated from harvard
  • graduate this year
  • going to graduate
  • after graduating from
  • to graduate from
  • had graduated from
  • a harvard graduate
  • a college graduate
  • college graduate
  • harvard graduate

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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