|Origin:||Latin gradus 'step, degree'|
grade1 S3 W3 [countable]
a particular level of quality that a product, material etc has:
The best grades of tea are expensive.
industrial grade diamonds
low grade products
a particular level of job:
There are lots of jobs in junior grades.
a mark that a student is given for their work or for an examination:
mark in schoolSES
He got a grade A in maths.
Tim worked hard and got good grades.
to succeed or reach the necessary standard:
What does it take to make the grade as a top golfer?
one of the 12 years that students are at school in the American school system, or the students in a particular year
second/eleventh etc grade
My brother is in sixth grade.
a fifth-grade teacher
a slope or a degree of slope, especially in a road or railway [= gradient British English]