graduate

IPA: grˈædʒʌwʌt

A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
(US, Canada) A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school.
(Philippines) A person who is recognized as having completed any level of education.
A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring.

(intransitive, ergative) To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.
(transitive, proscribed) To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution).
(transitive) To certify (a student) as having earned a degree
(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.
(intransitive) To change gradually.
To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of.
(chemistry) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
(intransitive) To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
(transitive, software engineering) To approve (a feature) for general release.
(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.

Examples of "graduate" in Sentences

The class of 1974 was the first to graduate.
The first class graduated in the Spring of 1910.
Barbosa graduated valedictorian of the class of 1880.
He graduated in 1791 as the valedictorian of his class.
The graduates joined the graduation ceremony of the day classes.
Henry Hobart and graduated in 1809 as the valedictorian of his class.
He attended the University of Dayton and graduated in the class of 1871.
Even I have been to Sparta, Illinois back when I was in graduate school in Carbondale.
The Mexican graduate is already a specialist but by U.S. standards is poorly educated.
The U.S. graduate is much better educated, but not nearly as proficient in his chosen profession.
My wife has seen this first-hand as an adjunct professor, and I saw it in graduate school here in Houston.
I might add, in the health law, they did do some reconfiguration of what they call the graduate medical education slots.
The big advantage of attending Harvard commencement as a family member instead of an actual graduate is that you spend hours on end sitting around instead of hours on end standing around.