A person who is older than another; one more advanced in life, One in the fourth or final year of his collegiate course at an American college; -- originally called senior sophister; also, one in the last year of the course at a professional schools or at a seminary, an undergraduate student during the year preceding graduation, adjective_ older; higher in rank; longer in length of tenure or service, used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college, Older; superior

Conferral or receipt of an academic degree or diploma marking completion of studies, Collectively, the marks or lines made on an instrument to indicate degrees or other divisions, The act of grading, or the state of being graded; grading

a vessel, usually of glass, having horizontal marks upon its sides, with figures, to indicate the amount of the contents at the several levels, Having a university degree; having completed training, Marked with graduations, verb_ Simple past tense and past participle of graduate