graduate²

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
   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 graduaten (“to graduate”), from (adjective) graduat(e) (also used as the past participle of graduaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), from Medieval Latin graduātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.

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