graduate

Adjective

• of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree
  • graduate courses
    

Noun

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

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

Verb

• make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring
  • calibrate an instrument
    
  • graduate a cylinder
    

• confer an academic degree upon
  • This school graduates 2,000 students each year
    

• receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies
  • She graduated in 1990
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  graduate(a) , postgraduate , alumnus , alumna , alum , grad , calibrate , fine-tune