grade

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English

Etymology

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 grìdiju (“to go, wander”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹeɪd/
  • (US, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [ɡɹeɪd]
  • (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): [ɡɹɛjd]
  • (Canada) IPA^(key): [ɡɹeːd]
  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): [ɡɹæɪd]
• Homophones: grayed, greyed
• Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun

grade (plural grades)

1. A rating.

2. (chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.

   Synonym: mark

3. A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
4. (linguistics) 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, US, Philippines, education) A level of primary and secondary education.

7. (Canada, education) 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. (mathematics) A gradian.
11. (geometry) 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. (systematics) A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
14. (medicine) The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.
15. (Philippines, ophthalmology) An eyeglass prescription.

Synonyms

• (taxon that is not a clade): paraphyletic group
• (slope): gradient

Descendants

• → Japanese: グレード (gurēdo)
• → Swahili: gredi

Translations

Verb

grade (third-person singular simple present grades, present participle grading, simple past and past participle graded)

1. (chiefly 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.

   to grade land before building on it
4. (sewing) 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. (patternmaking) 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. (linguistics) To describe, modify or inflect so as to classify as to degree.
8. (intransitive) To pass imperceptibly from one grade into another.
9. (Canada, no longer current, intransitive) To pass from one school grade into the next.

Translations

Derived terms

Anagrams

• garde, radge, Agder, Dager, Edgar, Adger, Degar, EDGAR, raged, Gared, greda, Gerda

Afrikaans

Noun

grade

1. plural of graad

Chinese

Alternative forms

• (Internet slang) 龜 / 龟

Etymology

From English grade.

Pronunciation

Noun

grade

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, chiefly university slang) grade

Derived terms

Esperanto

Etymology

grado +‎ -e

Pronunciation

Adverb

grade

1. gradually

Synonyms

• malabrupte

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gradus. Compare degré. Doublet of gradus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁad/
• Rhymes: -ad
• Homophone: grades

Noun

grade m (plural grades)

1. rank
2. (geometry) gradian

Synonyms

• degré
• rang

Derived terms

• en prendre pour son grade
• monter en grade

Related terms

• gradation
• grader

Descendants

• → Romanian: grad

Further reading

• “grade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Etymology 1

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese grade (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin cratis, cratem (“wickerwork”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾaðe̝/

Noun

grade f (plural grades)

1. (archaic) cage
2. grate (metal grille)
3. harrow (device dragged across ploughed land to smooth the soil)
4. any similarly formed frame or structure
5. common starfish (Asterias rubens)

   Synonyms: estrela do mar, rapacricas

6. Ursa Major

   Synonyms: Carro, Osa Maior

Derived terms

• gradar

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “grade”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “grade”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “grade”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “grade”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “grade”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

grade

1. inflection of gradar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

German

Etymology

Contraction of gerade.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡraːdə/

Adverb

grade

1. (colloquial) Alternative form of gerade

Further reading

• “grade” in Duden online
• “grade” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: gra‧de

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese grade, from Latin crātis, possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *krtis.

Noun

grade f (plural grades)

1. grate (metal grille)
2. a light fence
3. harrow (device dragged across ploughed land to smooth the soil)
4. grid

Etymology 2

Verb

grade

1. inflection of gradar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡrade]

Noun

grade n

1. indefinite plural of grad

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

grade (Cyrillic spelling граде)

1. vocative singular of grad

Spanish

Verb

grade

1. inflection of gradar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative