Usually means: Completed required coursework, earned degree.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. graduate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. graduate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. graduate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. graduate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. graduate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Graduate, graduate: Wordnik
  7. graduate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. graduate: Wiktionary
  9. graduate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. graduate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. graduate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. graduate: Dictionary.com
  13. graduate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  15. Graduate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. graduate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. graduate: Rhymezone
  18. Graduate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. graduate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. graduate: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. graduate: Free Dictionary
  22. graduate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. graduate: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. graduate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. graduate (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. graduate: Legal dictionary

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  1. graduate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. graduate: Medical dictionary

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  1. graduate: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. graduate, graduate: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Graduate: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. The Graduate, graduate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
noun:  (US, Canada) A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school.
noun:  (Philippines) A person who is recognized as having completed any level of education.
noun:  A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring.
adjective:  graduated, arranged by degrees
adjective:  holding an academic degree
adjective:  relating to an academic degree
verb:  (intransitive, ergative) To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
verb:  (transitive, proscribed) To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution).
verb:  (transitive) To certify (a student) as having earned a degree
verb:  (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.
verb:  (intransitive) To change gradually.
verb:  To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of.
verb:  (chemistry) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
verb:  (intransitive) To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
verb:  (transitive, software engineering) To approve (a feature) for general release.
verb:  (Japanese entertainment) 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.

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