graduate

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsalumnusalumnaalumgrad

   Broaderscholar

   NarrowerIvy Leaguerold boy
2. 2.

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

   Broadermeasuring instrument

   Narrowergraduated cylinder

1. 1.

   of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree

   “graduate courses”

   Synonymspostgraduate

   Similarhigh

Other forms of graduate

plural

graduates·

past tense

graduated·

present participle

graduating·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about graduate

What does graduate mean?

graduate means "receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in graduate?

graduate has 3 syllables: grad-u-ate. The stress falls on "grad". In IPA it is /ˈɡɹædʒəwət/.

What is another word for graduate?

Close synonyms include calibrate, fine-tune, alumnus, alumna, alum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is graduate a common word?

graduate is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with graduate?

1 word rhymes with graduate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.