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/grˌædʒuˈeɪʃən/ /grˌædʒəwˈeɪʃən/ Listen

Graduation

noun

The successful completion of a program of study.

An academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred. Synonyms: commencement, commencement ceremony, commencement exercise, graduation exercise.

A line (as on a vessel or ruler) that marks a measurement.

The act of arranging in grades. Synonym: gradation.

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"Graduation" Quotes from Famous Books

... half. He seems to have been a particularly brilliant student, for tradition records that he had obtained his degree of doctor of medicine when he was scarcely more than twenty. This seems quite out of the question for us at the present time, but we have taken to pushing back the time of graduation, and it is not sure whether this is, beyond peradventure, so beneficial as ...

— Old-Time Makers of Medicine • James J. Walsh

... of the world into which she had been admitted, upon condition that she left her womanhood without, the woman had thought herself wise in knowledge of mankind. In her school days, text books and lessons had meant little to her beside the friendship of her schoolmates. At her graduation she had considered her life education complete. She thought, modestly, that she was fitted for a woman's place in life. And that which she learned first from the world into which she had gone was this: ...

— Their Yesterdays • Harold Bell Wright

... on an occasion when Pollard was sea-sick and could not read to J. P. at breakfast. I was hurriedly summoned to take his place. I was dumbfounded, for I had never before been called upon for this task, and Mr. Pulitzer had often held it up to me as the last test of fitness, the charter of your graduation. I had nothing whatever prepared of the kind which J. P. required at that time, and I knew that upon the success of his breakfast might very well depend the general complexion ...

— An Adventure With A Genius • Alleyne Ireland

... very good story of himself. He had left the village in Maine, where he was born, and after graduation from college and admission to the bar had settled in Boston. To protect the interests of his clients he had moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and rescued railroad properties in which they were interested. When his success was complete and he had under ...

— My Memories of Eighty Years • Chauncey M. Depew

... negotiated for the bushes. He had trimmed up the berry bushes in the garden himself during his various holiday trips, and had arranged with a fisherman to dump a few haulings of shellfish on one field where he thought that kind of fertilizer would be effective. He had determined to use his hundred-dollar graduation present in fertilizer and seed. It would not go far but it would be a beginning. The work he would have to get some other way. He would have but little time to put to it himself until late in the summer probably, and there was a great deal that ought to be done ...

— Lo, Michael! • Grace Livingston Hill

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