graduate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To complete your studies and receive a degree from a university or college.

   She graduated from university last summer.

2. 2
   noun

   A person who has completed a degree at a university or college.

   The company prefers to hire recent graduates.

3. 3
   verb

   To give someone a degree; to certify a student as having finished their studies.

   The school graduates about two thousand students each year.

From Middle English graduat(e) (“(noun) a graduate of a university; (adjective) graduate, having graduated”, also used as the past participle of graduaten (“to graduate”)), borrowed from Medieval Latin graduātus (“graduated, graduate”), perfect passive participle of graduō (“to graduate”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from gradus (“step”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). The noun is originally derived within Latin from the adjective via substantivization, see -ate (noun-forming suffix). Sense 10 of the verb, relating to Japanese entertainment, is a semantic loan from Japanese 卒業 (sotsugyō)…

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