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Definition: Graduate |
GraduateAdjective1. Of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree; "graduate courses". Noun1. A person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university). 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. Verb1. Receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies; "She graduated in 1990". 2. Confer an academic degree upon; 'This school graduates 2,000 students each year". 3. Make fine adjustments for optimal functioning "calibrate an instrument". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "graduate" was first used: sometime in the early 15th century. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Education | One that has received an academic degree, a diploma, or a certificate (a college --). . Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A graduate is one whom has graduated. For example, from high school or college.See also
- graduate student
- The Graduate (book and movie)
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A graduate student (also, grad student or grad in American English, or postgraduate student in British English) is an individual who has completed a bachelor's degree (B.A., B.S., or another flavor) and is pursuing further higher education, with the goal of achieving a master's degree (M.A., M.S., M.Ed., etc.) or doctorate (Ph.D., Ed.D., J.D., etc.). The term usually does not refer to one in medical school and only occasionally refers to someone in law school.US
Admission
Admission to graduate school hinges upon successful completion of a Bachelor's degree, good grades, good GRE scores, letters of recommendation, previous research experience, and cronyism ("it's not what you know, it's who you know"). Popular (Ivy League) schools will often use cutoff scores on the GREs and transcripts to weed out applicants. Other schools require a professor at that school act as sponsor for an applicant to be accepted. Applicants from countries where English is not the primary language are also asked to take the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL).
Life
Grads generally declare their degree goal upon entering grad school. Early in the first year nearly all graduate programs require grads to take a test, called the Comprehensive, or the Comps, designed to test background undergraduate level knowledge. Passing this results in staying in the program, while failure (after a second try) results in dismissal, often with a "consolation" master's degree. In addition, during the first year many graduate students must also perform teaching duties, see "Funding" below.Both masters and doctoral students spend their first two years taking course work, and by their second year, both will begin research. However masters students will generally complete this research by the end of the third year, culminating in a paper, presentation, and defense of their research. This is called the Master's Thesis.
Typically in the second year doctoral hopeful grads take a second big test, the Qualifier, Qualifying exam, or the Quals, testing their grasp of graduate level knowlege. Again, passing allows the student to stay and be called a doctoral candidate, while failing results in expulsion. Some schools have an intermediate category, passing at the Master's level, which allows the student to leave with a Master's without having completed the Master's Thesis.
For the next 3-10 years, the doctoral candidate will perform his (or her) research to exclusion of all else: classes, sleep, food, personal hygeine. The typical doctoral degree takes about 5 years (from entering the program) to complete, though this time varies depending upon the department, thesis topic, and various other factors. For example, astronomy degrees take 5-6 years on average, but observational astronomy degrees take 6-7 (due to limiting factors of weather) while theoretical astronomy degrees take 5. The presense of a spouse can also shave a year off the time, though whether due to emotional support or nagging is unclear.
Grad students are stereotyped as being overworked and underpaid lackeys, goons, or monkeys, performing the research which their advisor found too tedious to do him (her) self. Therefore, social lives among grad students are rare. However, contrary to this theory, a large percent of grads are married or become married while in grad school.
Foreign grads outnumber US grads in many US departments, especially in the sciences. Within the US contingent, women, ethnic minorities, and individuals with disabilities are also under represented. While this has been greatly studied, the trend is endemic to not only grad school, but also undergraduate, secondary, and primary education. Therefore no easy solutions are available and "fixing" this trend will take time and effort on the parts of many individuals and institutions.
Funding
In the sciences, grads generally are funded by either a TA (teaching assistantship) or RA (research assistantship) which waives their tuition and provides barely enough pocket money to cover rent and food. Some students receive fellowships from various organizations, such as the NSF, but few in the sciences go without funding.In the humanities, however, there is generally not enough grant money to go around so the majority of assistantships are TAs. A large number of humanities grads take out loans for their earlier years of coursework and write their theses while holding down a full-time job.
Foreign grads are typically funded the same way as domestic (US) grads, although some funding sources (such as many NSF fellowships) may only be awarded to domestic students.
Unionization
There is an increasing movement at US graduate schools for unionization of grads. The United Auto Workers (UAW, "United Academic Workers") is one of the unions that represents graduate employees. Universities' administrations typically feel that unionizing is counter to the graduate students' primary status as a student, while the union organizers feel all employees have an inalienable right to unionizing. Among the graduate students themselves, the sentiment is mixed, and several union votes have failed, while others won only by a slim margin. Some even argue that while unionization may be beneficial (for example, many unionized graduate students have won higher wages and various benefits), the choice of which union to join is inappropriate. At the schools where graduate students are unionized, which positions are included vary; positions may include teaching assistants, research assistants, resident directors (typically grads), resident assistants (typically undergrads), and continuing education instructors, but do not typically include fellowship recipients.
UK
Admission
Admission to do a research degree requires the sponsorship of a professor. Admission to do a masters degree depends upon having an undergraduate degree, generally in a related subject.
Life
Undergraduate degrees in the UK are generally at a higher level than undergraduate degrees in the US, perhaps equivalent to the Master's degree.
Funding
It is very hard to obtain funding for postgraduate study in the UK. There are a few scholarships for masters courses but these are rare and dependent on the course and class of undergraduate degree obtained. Most masters students are self-funding.Funding is available for some Ph.D. courses. There is more in the sciences rather other discplines.
Afterwards
In both America and Britain, successful Ph.D. earners can look forward to a life in academia, as they continue on to a series of post doctoral (post-doc) positions before claiming their first tenure-track faculty spot. Individuals who choose to or involuntarily stop at the Master's often go on to industry or other graduate schools for the Ph.D., but with the current poor economy many find that they are over qualified for half the jobs, and under qualified for the other half. Primary and secondary teachers who earn their Master's can look forward to greater job security and pay.
External Links
- Piled Higer and Deeper is a webcomic about the life of grads at Stanford University
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Graduate student."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| GRE | English | Graduate Record Examination | N/A |
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Synonyms: GraduateSynonyms: graduate(a) (adj), postgraduate (adj), alum (n), alumna (n), alumnus (n), grad (n), calibrate (v), fine-tune (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agreement | Render accordant; Adjective: fit, suit, adapt, accommodate; graduate; adjust; (render, equal); dress, regulate, readjust; accord, harmonize,. reconcile; fadge, dovetail, square. |
Arrangement | Class, classify; divide; file, string together, thread; register; (record); catalogue, tabulate, index, graduate, digest, grade. |
Continuity | Arrange in a series, collate; Noun: string together, file, thread, graduate, organize, sort, tabulate. |
Learner | Undergraduate; graduate student; law student; medical student; pre-med; post-doctoral student, post-doc; matriculated student; part-time student, night student, auditor. |
Learning | Drop out, leave school, quit school; graduate; transfer; take a leave. |
Measurement | Take an average; graduate. |
Scholar | Noun: scholar, connoisseur, savant, pundit, schoolman, professor, graduate, wrangler; academician, academist; master of arts, doctor, gownsman; philosopher, master of math; scientist, clerk; sophist, sophister; linguist; glossolinguist, philologist; philologer; lexicographer, glossographer; grammarian; litterateur, literati, dilettanti, illuminati, cogniscenti; fellow, Hebraist, lexicologist, mullah, munshi, Sanskritish; sinologist, sinologue; Mezzofanti, admirable Crichton, Mecaenas. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | If you became ill, heaven forbid, your doctor would be a college graduate. (Matilda; writing credit: Nicholas Kazan and Robin Swicord. Based on the novel by Roald Dahl.) I'm a graduate of Civil Engineering from the University of Bonn (Schindler's List; writing credit: Steven Zaillian) You know, I've finally found out the best thing about high school, once you graduate you don't have to come back (Saved by the Bell; writing credit: Ana Maria Moretzsohn) I'm proof you don't really need to graduate from high school (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette) Simple. First you've acquired enough points to show up and graduate with your Top Gun class or you can quit (Top Gun; writing credit: Ehud Yonay; Jim Cash) | |
Lyrics | Just because you graduate from school so high in the gene pool, that's your point of view (Leaving Town; performing artist: Dexter Freebish) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Midnight Graduate (1970) | |
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 | Figure 14. Negretti and Zambra thermometers, older models. These were reversing thermometers completely protected by an outer glass casing. This type of thermometer was manufactured from 1878 until 1912. The scales were graduate d in degrees and half-degree centigrade. Length of these thermometers was about 24 cm, diameter of reservoir about 1.1 cm, and diameter of tube about 1.3 cm. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Chu Yang, NRCS Soil Conservationist and Fresno State University graduate student and chairman of 1.5 acres donated by Fresno State University, Fresno, CA, to a group of Hmoung farmers. The farmers are growing Thai eggplant, lemon grass, bok choy, Chinese. Credit: Bob Nichols. |
 | From left: Rudy Perez, NRCS Public Affairs Specialist, Chu Yang, NRCS Soil Conservationist and Fresno State University graduate student and chairman of 1.5 acres donated by Fresno State University, Fresno, CA, to a group of Hmoung farmers. The three men d. Credit: Bob Nichols. |  | ChuYang, NRCS, Soil Conservationist and Tou Xiong, Fresno State University graduate student and chairman of 1.5 acres donated by Fresno State University, Fresno, California to a group of Hmoung farmers. The farmers are growing Asian vegeatbles to be sold at local farmers markets. Credit: USDA. |
 | Soil agronomist Frank Whisler (right) and graduate student Farhad Khorsandi record cotton plant height, nodes, and fruiting sites-a process called mapping-to aid in quality and yield research. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | Cornell University graduate student Tara Sirvent prepares dried Hypericum perforatum for extraction and analysis. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Peggy Greb.. |
 | [Basic graduate class of 1936]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Advanced graduate class of 1936]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | On board USS Kidd (DDG-993) in April 1982. They are (seated, left to right): Jesse W. Arbor; Dalton L. Baugh; William S. White; Samuel E. Barnes; (standing, left to right): George C. Cooper; James E. Hare; John W. Reagan; Graham E. Martin; Wesley A. Brown; Frank E. Sublett. Brown was the first African-American graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. The others were members of "the Golden Thirteen", the first African-American Navy officers, who were commissioned in 1944. Credit: NAVY. |  | Members of the first class of WAVES to graduate from the Aviation Metalsmith School, at the Naval Air Technical Training Center, Norman, Oklahoma, 30 July 1943. Those present are identified in Photo # NH 95359 (complete caption), which also provides additional information provided by the donor. Credit: NAVY. |
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Louisa May Alcott | Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors. |
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Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | In more recent cases, all on the graduate school [347 U.S. 483, 492] level, inequality was found in that specific benefits enjoyed by white students were denied to Negro students of the same educational qualifications. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Promote the introduction of courses in human sexuality into the curricula of graduate schools for all health care professionals. (references) | |
First and foremost, information on urinary incontinence should be included in the core curricula of undergraduate and graduate professional schools. (references) | ||
Individual counseling occurs once a week, and group therapy sessions are held three times a week. After 2 months of day treatment and at least 2 weeks of abstinence, participants graduate to a 4-month work component that pays wages that can be used to rent inexpensive, drug-free housing. (references) | ||
Business | In 1996 5 million students were enrolled in colleges and graduate schools. (references) | |
Between 3000 to 4000 students graduate annually from Bachelor and Masters programs in Computer Science. (references) | ||
Some academics have reported that in some departments women are beginning to outnumber men--even in some graduate schools. (references) | ||
Children | Haiti | According to the Government, 40 percent of children never attend school, and less than 15 percent of those who do graduate from secondary school. (references) |
Marshall Islands | Of that number, 50 percent eventually graduate The Government provides subsidized essential medical services for all citizens, including children. (references) | |
Somalia | There are three secondary schools in Somaliland and more than three secondary schools in Mogadishu; however, only 10 percent of those few children who enter primary school graduate from secondary school. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Mauritania | Nevertheless these students are able to advance in school and graduate with diplomas, provided that they compensate for their failure to attend the required religion classes by their performance in other classes. (references) |
Nigeria | During the year, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) leaders volunteered to place teachers of Christianity in Zamfara and Sokoto state schools, where students alleged that they were being forced to take courses in Islamic religious knowledge in order to graduate. (references) | |
Economic History | Benin | Plans are now afoot to graduate such programs into a broader regional framework. (references) |
Human Rights | Japan | Responding to the final report of a Government advisory panel established in 1999 to outline structural reforms to the judicial system, in June the Government announced plans to begin drafting legislation aimed at reducing the average time required to complete criminal trials and civil trials that include witness examination (which lasted an average of 20.5 months in 1999). Its proposals included hiring substantial numbers of additional court and Justice Ministry personnel, revising bar examinations, establishing new graduate law schools to increase the overall number of legal professionals (judges, lawyers, and prosecutors) three-fold by 2010, and requiring that courts and opposing litigants jointly work to improve trial planning by allowing for earlier evidence collection and disclosure. (references) |
Minorities | Hungary | Only 1.6 percent of the Romani community graduate from high school, compared with 23.8 percent for non-Roma, while 0.24 percent graduate from college or university, compared with 9.45 percent for non-Roma. (references) |
Travel | El Salvador | Salvadorans commonly use titles such as Licenciado (meaning a college graduate), Ingeniero (engineering graduate), or Doctor (used both for physicians and lawyers). (references) |
Women | Iran | In September 2000, the Majles approved a controversial bill to allow single women to travel abroad for graduate education. (references) |
Turkmenistan | However, the military academy is scheduled to graduate its first class of female cadets in 2002. Under the law, women enjoy the same inheritance and marriage rights as men. (references) | |
Jordan | In 2000 the University of Jordan established a new graduate degree program in women's studies to promote "objective awareness between the sexes." Members of the royal family work actively to improve the status of women. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Moldova | Another pattern of trafficking involves orphans who must leave orphanages when they graduate, usually at 16 or 17 years of age, and have no source of funds for living expenses or continuing education. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal. |
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Rush Limbaugh | On Open Line Friday this week, we had a very provocative and controversial phone call from a graduate student named Libby in Piscataway, New Jersey. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | If this Nation is to grow in wisdom and strength, then every able high school graduate should have the opportunity to develop his talents. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | There are hundreds of thousands of fathers and mothers who never completed grammar school-who will see their children graduate from college. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | After all, most of the people we're counting on to build our economic future do not graduate from college. |
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| "Graduate" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 86.86% of the time. "Graduate" is used about 874 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 86.86% | 759 | 9,024 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 8.57% | 75 | 38,535 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.23% | 37 | 56,631 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.34% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 874 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "graduate": college graduate ♦ graduate course ♦ graduate from ♦ graduate from a university ♦ graduate in pharmacy ♦ graduate into ♦ graduate nurse ♦ Graduate Record Examination ♦ graduate school ♦ graduate student ♦ law school graduate ♦ secondary school graduate ♦ technical college graduate ♦ tenured graduate student ♦ university graduate. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "graduate": graduate-level. | |
Ending with "graduate": non-graduate. | |
Containing "graduate": post-graduate course of study, post-graduate student. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "graduate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gradoj (advance, calibrate, divide, elevate, make headway, move forward, progress, promote, raise), shkallëzoj (divide, scale, stagger), mbaroj shkollën, i diplomuar (bachelor, certificated, full-fledged, graduation), aspirant (graduate student). (various references) | |
Arabic | متخرج, حامل شهادة جامعية, تخرج من جامعة, تدرج (gradate, gradation, grade, graduation, progression, scale, shade), ذو علاقة بالدراسات العليا, خريج, أنبوبة مدرجة, درج (calibrate, code, grade, include, insert, inset, locker, scale, slot, staircase, stairs, step, stud, toddle). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | градуирам (calibrate, gauge, mark off), давам диплома на, давам научна степен на, питомец (pupil), променям (alter, change, change to, differentiate, leaven, modify, mutate, remodel, reshape, reverse, shade, shift, turn, vary), завършил, завършил университет, дипломирам се, висшист, степенувам (grade), градуиран съд, квалифицирам се (habilitate, qualify), квалифициран (accomplished, fit, fledged, regular, skilled, trained), следдипломен (postgraduate), свършвам университет, свършвам учебно заведение, сгъстявам чрез изпаряване, мензура. (various references) | |
Chinese | 畢業" , 毕业". (various references) | |
Czech | udìlat vysokoškolský diplom, promovat (be awarded one's degree), absolvovat (complete, finish, pass out), absolvent. (various references) | |
Danish | person der har bestaaet afsluttende eksamen, eksamen fra en hoejere laereanstalt. (various references) | |
Dutch | gediplomeerd (certificated), afgestudeerd (certificated). (various references) | |
Esperanto | diplomita (certificated), diplomiĝi. (various references) | |
Finnish | saavuttaa oppiarvo (take one's degree), saavuttaa akateeminen oppiarvo (take one's degree). (various references) | |
French | graduer (gradate, grade, increase gradually), diplômé. (various references) | |
Frisian | diplomearre (certificated). (various references) | |
German | einteilen (budget, calibrate, detail, divide, divide in, divide up, grade, grade crossing, organize, plan out, separate, share, split up, to divide in), promovieren (advance, confer a doctorate on, do a doctorate, promote, receive a doctorate), abstufen (gradate, grade, layer, shade, step, terrace). (various references) | |
Greek | αποφοιτώ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מוסמך (authentic, authorized, certificated, certified, competent, master, ordained, qualified). (various references) | |
Hungarian | diplomás (grad, professional, professional man), végzős, egyetemet végzett. (various references) | |
Indonesian | lulusan (alumni, alumnus), lepasan (alumna, alumnus, ex). (various references) | |
Italian | laureato (bachelor, graduated), diplomato (licentiate, qualified). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 出 (comingout, one's turn to appear on stage, outflow, rising), '者 , '業" (alumnus). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そつぎょうせい (alumnus), そつしゃ, で (comingout, one's turn to appear on stage, outflow, rising). (various references) | |
Korean | 졸업생. (various references) | |
Manx | keimee (promote), geddyn keim (graduation). (various references) | |
Norwegian | kandidat. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aduategray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | licenciado (dischargee, licensed, master, test-mixer), graduado (gradual), diplomado (certificated, diplomaed, trained). (various references) | |
Romanian | grada (calibrate, divide, gradate, grade, sort), absolvi (absolve, acquit, excuse, exempt, exonerate, forgive, indulge, pass out, release), absolvi o şcoalã, aspirant (aspirant, midshipman, post-graduate), conferi un titlu universitar, de absolvent, deţinãtor de titluri academice, absolvent (fellow, school leaver), fi apt de, titrat (titled), licenţiat (bachelor, licentiate, master), lua un titlu universitar, recipient gradat pentru mãsurat, se pregãti pentru un examen de diplomã, se schimba pe nesimţite, se schimba treptat, diviza (carve up, divide, parcel out, partition, plot, plot out, separate, share, split). (various references) | |
Russian | располагать по порядку (range), градуировать (divide), оканчивать (graduate at, graduate from), мензурка (beaker, medicine glass, test-mixer), имеющий ученую степень. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | graduisati, svršeni đak, postdiplomski (postgraduate), poslediplomski, obeležiti (imprint, mark, mark off, mark out, note, spot, tick), diplomirati, diplomirani (licentiate). (various references) | |
Spanish | graduado (alumnus, graduated, postgraduate, trained). (various references) | |
Swedish | graduera, akademisk student. (various references) | |
Thai | เรียนจบ, ผู้สำเร็จการศึกษา (grad). (various references) | |
Turkish | sınıflandırmak (assort, categorize, class, classify, divide, grade, group, label, label as, rate, sort, sort out, subsume), mezun olmak (graduate from), mezun etmek, mezun (diplomaed, grad, graduated, school leaver), master öğrencisi (graduate student), lisans üstü (postgraduate), diplomalı (diplomaed), diploma vermek, dereceli kap, derecelere ayrılmak, derecelendirmek (calibrate, gradate, grade, scale, stagger), bitirmek (break up, bring to an end, bring to completion, call it off, carry through, cease, clean up, clear off, close, complete, conclude, consume, deplete, drink, end, end off, exhaust, expend, fetch up, finish, fulfil, fulfill, get through, leave off, make an end of, play out, point, polish off, put a stop to, put an end to, put through, round out, run out, sign off, snuff out, swallow up, terminate, use up, wind up, work off, wrap it up), ayrılmak (apostatize, be off, be through with, break away, break up, break with, check out, come unstuck, cut loose, decamp, defect, depart, desert, deviate, disunite, divaricate, diverge, divide, divorce, divorce from, draw apart, draw away, drop out, fork, furcate, get clear of, get off, give up, hive off, lead away from, leave, mosey, move off, part, part company, part company with, part from, part with, pull away, pull out, quit, retire, revolt, revolt from, secede, segregate, separate, sever, splinter off, split, split off, split up, stray, sunder, take one's farewell of, tear oneself away, unstuck, vacate, walk off, walk out, walk out of, withdraw), ürün (child, crop, end product, fruit, growth, harvest, offspring, produce, product, progeny, result, turnoff, yield), üniversite mezunu (colleger, collegian, gownsman, graduate student, postgraduate). (various references) | |
Turkmen | aspirant (r) (graduate student). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | градуювати (calibrate, divide, scale), випускник учбового закладу, мензурка (beaker), закінчувати учбовий заклад, давати диплом. (various references) | |
Welsh | graddoli (grade), graddio, graddedig. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | gradus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "graduate": graduated, graduates. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "graduate": nongraduate, postgraduate, undergraduate. (additional references) | |
Words containing "graduate": nongraduates, postgraduates, undergraduates. (additional references) | |
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"Graduate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gradiate, Gradouge, graduat, graduity, gradulate, gratuate, Irapuato. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "graduate" (pronounced gra"juwut, gra"juwā't, gra"juwwut , or gra"juwā't) |
| 8 | g r a" j u w u t | undergraduate. |
| 3 | -w u t | adequate, banquet, inadequate. |
| 4 | -u w ā' t | actuate, fluctuate, perpetuate. |
| 3 | -w ā' t | antiquate, counterweight, deadweight, featherweight, heavyweight, hundredweight, middleweight, paperweight, underweight, welterweight. |
| 3 | -w u t | adequate, banquet, inadequate, undergraduate. |
| 3 | -uw ā' t | attenuate, devaluate, effectuate, evaluate, extenuate, infatuate, punctuate, reevaluate, situate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-g-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: aurated, gradate. | |
-2 letters: argued, aurate, datura, gateau, grated, rugate, trudge. | |
-3 letters: adage, agate, argue, auger, aurae, dater, derat, gated, grade, grate, great, guard, raged, rated, reata, retag, rugae, tared, targe, tegua, terga, trade, tread, trued, urate, urged. | |
-4 letters: agar, aged, ager, ague, area, aura, dare, dart, data, date, daut, dear, drag, drat, dreg, drug. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-g-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: graduated, graduates. | |
+2 letters: dramaturge, granulated, gratulated, guaranteed, guarantied. | |
+3 letters: autografted, autographed, dramaturges, gastrulated, inaugurated, nongraduate, sugarcoated. | |
+4 letters: adulterating, dramaturgies, nongraduates, outbargained, postgraduate, strangulated, triangulated. | |
+5 letters: coastguardmen, congratulated, degranulation, granddaughter, postgraduates, undergraduate. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Historic 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Spoken 12. Quotations: Speeches | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Abbreviations 19. Acronyms 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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