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Synonyms for graduation
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : graj-oo-ey-shuh n |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌgrædʒ uˈeɪ ʃən |
Définition of graduation
Origin :- early 15c., in alchemy, "tempering, refining of something to a certain degree; measurement according to the four degrees of a quality," from graduate (n.). General sense of "dividing into degrees" is from 1590s; meaning "action of receiving or giving an academic degree" is from early 15c.; in reference to the ceremony where a degree is given, from 1818.
- noun commencement
- This is the first summer since her graduation which she has not spent abroad.
- Extract from : « The Rise of Roscoe Paine » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- Phœbe's graduation from the Greenwald High School was her red-letter day.
- Extract from : « Patchwork » by Anna Balmer Myers
- At graduation, he may say, “I'm going into chemical engineering construction.”
- Extract from : « The Black Star Passes » by John W Campbell
- The day after the graduation, the cards were handed out among the other grades.
- Extract from : « Rosemary » by Josephine Lawrence
- It marred all joys of graduation, so far as Miss Sanford was concerned.
- Extract from : « Marion's Faith. » by Charles King
- I had never been reproached by any one for my conduct on Graduation Day.
- Extract from : « The Promised Land » by Mary Antin
- Graduation at Wellington was old-fashioned and conventional.
- Extract from : « Molly Brown's Senior Days » by Nell Speed
- Your age and the year of your graduation from the Military Academy?
- Extract from : « The Lost Despatch » by Natalie Sumner Lincoln
- The age of graduation is usually from seventeen to twenty-five or even more.
- Extract from : « The Indian Today » by Charles A. Eastman
- Mother would expect her to wear them at her graduation and how could she?
- Extract from : « Fireside Stories for Girls in Their Teens » by Margaret White Eggleston
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