grade

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A mark or score given for work at school or in a test.

   He got a good grade on the test.

2. 2
   verb

   To give a mark or score to a piece of work.

   The teacher stayed late to grade the exams.

3. 3
   noun

   A level of quality or value within a range.

   This shop only sells the highest grade of coffee.

4. 4
   noun

   The steepness of a slope or road.

   The truck slowed down on the steep grade.

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”).

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