grade

Academic Word List, sublist 7.

About 28.37 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A rating.

   This fine-grade coin from 1837 is worth a good amount.

2. noun 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.

3. noun A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
4. noun Degree (any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb).
5. noun A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage

   The grade of this hill is more than 5 percent.

6. noun A level of primary and secondary education.

   Clancy is entering the fifth grade this year.

7. noun A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).

   The grade fives are on a field trip.

8. noun An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).

Similar words

rank improved form order rate class surface mark level grad

Often followed by

of level and school in levels is students

Word family

grad gradable graded gradeless grades grading