I think graduate indicates only a university graduate in British English, but in American English can it perhaps also suggest a high-school graduate as well?

Could anyone tell me something about that?


I speak AmE, but I have encountered the term school-leaver or school leaver in BrE and AuE writings.

Collins Dictionary defines school leaver:

School leavers are young people who have just left school, because they have completed their time there.

Cambridge Dictionary defines school-leaver:

a young person who is about to leave or has just left secondary school