<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a person who has received a degree or diploma on completing a course of study, as in a university, college, or school.</li><li>a student who holds the bachelor's or the first professional degree and is studying for an advanced degree.</li><li>a graduated cylinder, used for measuring.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>of, relating to, or involved in academic study beyond the first or bachelor's degree: graduate courses in business; a graduate student.</li><li>having an academic degree or diploma: a graduate engineer.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used without object) to receive a degree or diploma on completing a course of study (often followed by from): She graduated from college in 1985.</li><li>to pass by degrees; change gradually.</li><li>(used with object) to confer a degree upon, or to grant a diploma to, at the close of a course of study, as in a university, college, or school: Cornell graduated eighty students with honors.</li><li>Informal: to receive a degree or diploma from: She graduated college in 1950.</li><li>to arrange in grades or gradations; establish gradation in.</li><li>to divide into or mark with degrees or other divisions, as the scale of a thermometer.</li></ul>