graduate
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3.4
- noun
- /ˈɡrædʒuɪt/
:
graduado
- Look at the difference in income between college graduates and high school graduates.
- undergraduates and graduates
- college graduate
- high school graduate
Ellen Richards was the first woman graduate of of MIT.
- Ellen Richards was the first woman graduate of of MIT.
- The Darden School sends graduates into that firm.
- If you're able, graduates, please rise.
- And my classmates were all top graduates at the Air Force Academy.
- The headline of the article about jobs speech was jobs encourages graduates to follow their dreams.
- I'm a recent college graduate studying political science.
- What do every W Pointer and Annapolis graduate have in common?
Examples
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After four years of hard work, she is proud to be a graduate of the university.
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Approximately 75 percent of DOE graduates go on to a CUNY college after high school.
Academic text (2015) -
So then they reached out to young college graduates to come and help them out.
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The Associated Press reported that he remains enrolled as a graduate student at the university.
Academic text (2017) -
But thank goodness our graduates are really good.
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- He's a graduate student at the university.
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Are you a high-school graduate?
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Look at me, I'm a graduate now, I have a sociology degree.
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Everyone, I would like to propose a toast to our graduates.
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He was a Yale graduate and UCLA for his medical training.
Synonyms
156
3.0
A person who has finished a course at a college or university
22
4.0
A person who graduated from a school, college, or university
Compounds
75
2.5
A student who studies for a master's or PhD after finishing a bachelor's degree
- Specialized
A person who finished nursing school training but is not yet licensed to work as a nurse
How Educated
Surface Forms
Etymology
Graduate comes from the Latin gradus, meaning 'step', and is the same root as grade. A graduate is someone who has taken that step and finished a course, so the word means a person with a degree.