graduate

A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.

If the government wants graduates to stay in the country they should offer more incentives.

A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course of study at the school.

A person who is recognized as having completed any level of education.

A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring.

graduated, arranged by degrees

holding an academic degree

relating to an academic degree

To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.

The man graduated in 1967.

Trisha graduated from college.

To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution).

Trisha graduated college.

To certify (a student) as having earned a degree

Indiana University graduated the student.

The college graduated him as soon as he was no longer eligible to play under NCAA rules.

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.

To change gradually.

As the species graduate into each other, both in form and in habits, from the grass-eating Geese to the fish-eating Harelds, it is difficult, […] to divide this large group into sections.

Yadav, born Bharat Kalicharan, was a petty thief who had graduated to bigger crimes, terrorising Kasturba Nagar, on the edge of the city of Nagpur, in Maharashtra, from the 1990s until his death.