grade

Meaning

Noun

1. A rating.
2. (Canada, Philippines, US) Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.
3. A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
4. Degree (any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb).
5. A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage
6. (Canada, Philippines, US) A level of primary and secondary education.
7. (Canada) A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).
8. An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).
9. The level of the ground.
10. A gradian.
11. In a linear system of divisors on an n-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection points of n generic divisors.
12. A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
13. A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
14. The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.
15. (Philippines) An eyeglass prescription.

Verb

1. (Canada, US) To assign scores to the components of an academic test, or to overall academic performance.
2. To organize in grades.
3. To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface, especially with a grader.
4. To remove or trim part of a seam allowance from a finished seam so as to reduce bulk and make the finished piece more even when turned right side out.
5. To increase or decrease the dimensions of a garment pattern from the initial base size in such a way that the overall proportions of the silhouette are maintained across all sizes.
6. To apply classifying labels to data (typically by a manual rather than automatic process).
7. To describe, modify or inflect so as to classify as to degree.
8. (intransitive) To pass imperceptibly from one grade into another.
9. (Canada, dated, intransitive) To pass from one school grade into the next.

Synonyms

rank

class

degree

level

mark

quality

rate

standard

sort

order

score

stage

slope

classify

amount

gradation

tier

form

note

chapter

category

rating

mark

step

caste

year

brand

classification

status

range

phase

place

row

pitch

kind

inclination

group

grad

gradient

steps

sequence

series

scale

set

assessment

marks

declivity

hybrid

graduate

🎓

incline

Translations

niveau

degré

Grad

grado

Rang

grade

Stufe

Stand

Niveau

classe

Klasse

grado

note

βαθμός

graad

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡɹeɪd/

Etymology

Cognate with Gothic: 𐌲𐍂𐌹𐌸𐍃

Cognate with Bavarian: Gritt

Cognate with Lithuanian: grìdiju

In summary

Borrowed from Middle French grade (“a grade, degree”), from Latin gradus (“a step, pace, degree”), from Proto-Italic *graðus, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰradʰ-, *gʰredʰ- (“to walk, go”). Doublet of gradus.
Cognate with Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌹𐌸𐍃 (griþs, “step, grade”), Bavarian Gritt (“step, stride”), Lithuanian gri̇̀diju (“to go, wander”).

Sentences

Saint Peter's Church is a Grade One listed building .

The Glen Rock Public Schools serve students in kindergarten through twelfth grade .