Graduate vs. Laureate — What's the Difference?

A person who has successfully completed a course of study or training, especially a person who has been awarded an undergraduate or first academic degree.

In English, the word laureate has come to signify eminence or association with literary awards or military glory. It is also used for recipients of the Nobel Prize, the Gandhi Peace Award, the Student Peace Prize, and for former music directors of orchestras who retain some level of involvement.

A graduated cup, tube, flask, or measuring glass, used especially by chemists and pharmacists.

Worthy of the greatest honor or distinction

Successfully complete an academic degree, course of training, or (in North America) high school

Crowned or decked with laurel as a mark of honor.

Arrange in a series or according to a scale

(Archaic) Made of laurel sprigs, as a wreath or crown.

Change (something, typically colour or shade) gradually or step by step

One honored or awarded a prize for great achievements especially in the arts or sciences

To be granted an academic degree or diploma

A poet laureate.

To change gradually or by degrees

Crowned, or decked, with laurel.

To advance to a new level of skill, achievement, or activity

(dated) One crowned with laurel, such as a poet laureate or Nobel laureate.

To grant an academic degree or diploma to

A graduate of a university.

Usage Problem To receive an academic degree from

(intransitive) To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at English universities.

To arrange or divide into categories, steps, or grades

Crowned, or decked, with laurel.

To divide into marked intervals, especially for use in measurement

One crowned with laurel; a poet laureate.

One who has received an academic degree or diploma.

A person who has been presented with an award for some distinguished achievement; as, a Nobel laureate; the Pris de Rome laureate; the Music Director Laureate; the conductor laureate.

A graduated container, such as a cylinder or beaker.

To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at the English universities.

Possessing an academic degree or diploma.

Someone honored for great achievements; figuratively someone crowned with a laurel wreath

Of, intended for, or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree

Worthy of the greatest honor or distinction;

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

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

(Philippines) 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.

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

(transitive) To certify (a student) as having earned a degree

(transitive) 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.

(intransitive) To change gradually.

To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of.

(chemistry) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.

To taper, as the tail of certain birds.

(Japanese entertainment) Of an idol: to exit a group; or of a virtual YouTuber, to leave a management agency; usually accompanied with "graduation ceremony" send-offs, increased focus on the leaving member, and the like.

To mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps, grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.

To admit or elevate to a certain grade or degree; esp., in a college or university, to admit, at the close of the course, to an honorable standing defined by a diploma; as, he was graduated at Yale College.

To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of; as, to graduate the heat of an oven.

To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.

To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz.

To taper, as the tail of certain birds.

To take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma.

One who has received an academical or professional degree; one who has completed the prescribed course of study in any school or institution of learning.

A graduated cup, tube, flask, or cylinder; a glass measuring container used by apothecaries and chemists. See under Graduated.

Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated.

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

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

Receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies;

Confer an academic degree upon;

Make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring;

Of or relating to studies beyond a bachelor's degree;