Graduation

Quick meaning: Graduation is a noun meaning The action or process of graduating and receiving a diploma for completing a course of study (such as from an educational institution).

Meaning

The action or process of graduating and receiving a diploma for completing a course of study (such as from an educational institution).

More Meanings

1. A commencement ceremony.
2. (Japanese entertainment) The action or process of leaving a group.
3. The exposure of a liquid in large surfaces to the air, so as to hasten its evaporation.
4. Synonym of gradation.
5. (sciences) A marking (e.g., on a container) indicating a measurement on a scale, usually one of many such markings; the making of such marks.

Example Sentences

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The graduation ball was the students' chance to say goodbye to each other.

After my graduation, I took a year out to travel, then went into an office job.

"No good, I'm afraid," he confessed before he took it. "A print of this sort is one of the few things that afford no graduation to the sense of touch. No, no"—as he passed his finger-tips over the paper—"a gelatino-chloride surface of mathematical uniformity, Inspector, and nothing more. Now had it been the negative—"

Word Forms

• graduations

Synonyms for graduation

Depending on context, synonyms include gradation, commencement.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include commencement, gradation, graduate, diploma, graduated, degree.

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