graduate - Definition | Dictionary definition of graduate

Definition of graduate

a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)

Types:: Ivy Leaguer
a student or graduate at an Ivy League school; old boy
a former male pupil of a school

Type of:: bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student
a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines

a measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume; a glass container (cup or cylinder or flask) whose sides are marked with or divided into amounts

Type of:: measuring device, measuring instrument, measuring system
instrument that shows the extent or amount or quantity or degree of something

receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies

"She graduated in 1990"

confer an academic degree upon

"This school graduates 2,000 students each year"

make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring

"graduate a cylinder"

Type of:: adjust, correct, set
alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard

of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree

"graduate courses"

Synonyms:: postgraduate; high
greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount