Academic celebrant

noun or adjective

1. Graduate

noun

1. One hundredth of a right angle

abbreviation

1. Graduated

noun

1. A level of study in an elementary, middle, or secondary school that is completed by a student during one year

   "will enter eleventh grade this year"

2. The students in the same year of study in elementary, middle, or secondary school

   "The ninth grade is away on a field trip."

3. A degree of severity in illness

   "grade III carcinoma"

4. A military or naval rank

   "To be prepared for burial Claggart's body was delivered to certain petty-officers of his mess. And … the Master-at-arms was committed to the sea with every funeral honor properly belonging to his naval grade."

5. A mark indicating a degree of accomplishment in school

   "earned good grades in school"

6. A class of things of the same stage or degree
7. A standard of food quality

   "Extra-virgin is the highest grade of olive oil."

8. The degree of inclination of a road or slope

   "… one track went straight up the steep hill, the other one turned square off to the right, with a very slight grade."

9. A datum or reference level
10. A domestic animal with one parent purebred and the other of inferior breeding
11. Any of the variants of a root or affix (distinguished by a particular vowel or the absence of any vowel) in the ablaut series of an Indo-European language
12. The elementary school system