Christmas graduate
- noun
:
graduado de Navidad
- She was proud to be a Christmas graduate, finishing her degree a semester earlier than most.
Examples
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As a Christmas graduate, he entered the job market before many of his classmates.
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The university held a special ceremony for all the Christmas graduates this year.
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She is a Christmas graduate from Harvard.
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Many Christmas graduates find jobs quickly.
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As a Christmas graduate, he entered the job market before many of his classmates.
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She was proud to be a Christmas graduate, finishing her degree a semester earlier than most.
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The university held a special ceremony for all the Christmas graduates this year.
Synonyms
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A person who has finished a course at a college or university and received a degree
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'Christmas' (a time/season) with 'graduate' (a person awarded a degree): it denotes someone who graduates at Christmas/December rather than at the usual spring ceremony. This is a straightforward time+role compound that follows normal English composition patterns and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Christmas graduate comes from the picture of a student finishing school near Christmas and getting their diploma in December. It means 'to graduate in December' instead of at the usual spring ceremony, so the student can start work earlier.