grade
/ɡɹeɪd/ noun A1- A rating. · This fine-grade coin from 1837 is worth a good amount.· prime grade beef
- Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score. · He got a good grade on the test.· I gave him a good grade for effort.
- A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
- Degree (any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb).
- A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage · The grade of this hill is more than 5 percent.
- A level of primary and secondary education. · Clancy is entering the fifth grade this year.· Clancy starts grade five this year.
- A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level). · The grade fives are on a field trip.
- An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).
Plural grades
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Instead of a rude mixture of sailors, soldiers, and those belonging to the humblest grade of life, the present assembly was composed of the very flower of Marseilles society,—magistrates who had resigned their office during the usurper’s reign; officers who had deserted from the imperial army and joined forces with Condé; and younger members of families, brought up to hate and execrate the man whom five years of exile would convert into a martyr, and fifteen of restoration elevate to the rank of a god.
Josie Pye never scrupled to ask questions; in this instance the rest of the class felt grateful to her; none of them would have dared to ask it of Miss Stacy, but all wanted to, for there had been alarming rumors running at large through the school for some time that Miss Stacy was not coming back the next year--that she had been offered a position in the grade school of her own home district and meant to accept.
I have written two essays, but I haven't gotten my grades yet.
When they presented their project, the teacher gave them a perfect grade.
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