to graduate from college
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2.8
- phrasal verb
- /ˈɡrædʒueɪt frʌm ˈkɒlɪdʒ/
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graduarse de la universidad
- She graduated from college last spring and is now looking for work.
- students graduate from college
- first to graduate from college
- women graduate from college
And then when my son graduated from college, he marched across the bridge.
- And then when my son graduated from college, he marched across the bridge.
- The day before I graduated from college, I was drunk and bit through a pineapple.
- My brother AJ was graduating from college.
- Wouldn't that be a great way to kind of, you know, get attention after you graduate from college and you have some hedge fund backing?
- You know, if you look at, say, people like Bill Gates for Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, these guys didn't graduate from college.
- And I love there's this book, the four Agreements, Yeah, that I, I recently gave my sisters who are graduating from college.
- Back to my fiance who had graduated from college, got her master's degree, will one day be bringing in bigger bucks.
Examples
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When I graduate from college, get a good job...
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Grandmother Bea was the first woman to graduate from college in her family.
Academic text (1998) -
These families... ...will never see their children graduate from college.
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After graduating from college, I went to law school and became a lawyer after that.
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When I graduated from college, I was told that I needed a nine to five job.
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Four years ago you graduated from college, and we had a deal.
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- I just graduated from college.
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I did not come out until after I graduated from college.
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So, as soon as I graduated from college, I became an accountant for the police department.
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The three young men all expressed a desire to graduate from college and pursue a professional career.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
637
2.7
To complete a course at a college or university and receive a degree
Surface Forms
Morphology
The overall meaning is directly derivable from the constituents: 'graduate' (to complete a program), plus the preposition 'from' indicating the institution, and 'college' (an educational institution). This is a regular verb + preposition + noun construction that maps transparently onto the literal meanings and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the parts will understand it.
Etymology
Graduate from college may come from an old word meaning 'step' and from the simple image of students walking up steps or across a stage to receive their diploma. That's why graduate from college means 'to finish a degree and get a diploma'.