grade – English noun declension

English noun forms of grade

Noun: grade
Singulargrade
Pluralgrades

Sample Sentences

  • This fine-grade coin from 1837 is worth a good amount.
  • prime grade beef
  • He got a good grade on the test.
  • I gave him a good grade for effort.
  • You need a grade of at least 80% in first-year calculus to be admitted to the CS major program.
  • There are a lot of varieties of diatomaceous earth, so when you are shopping, be sure to get the right stuff! Make sure that you get food grade diatomaceous earth. Some people make 3% of the food they eat be diatomaceous earth. [1986–2012, paul wheaton permaculture, “Diatomaceous Earth (food grade): bug killer you can eat!”, in richsoil.com, retrieved 17 Mar 2014:]
  • The grade of this hill is more than 5 percent.
  • The incline can be altered to any grade so as to suit the weight of the door or gate to which the butt is attached. [1847, editorial staff, “Improved Adjustable Incline Door and Gate Butt”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 3, Issue 9, page 68:]
  • Clancy is entering the fifth grade this year.
  • Clancy starts grade five this year.
  • The grade fives are on a field trip.
  • This material absorbs moisture and is probably not a good choice for use below grade.
  • The whistle of the shot as it cuts the leaves / Of the maples around the church’s eaves— / And the grade of hatchets, fiercely thrown, / On wigwam-log, and tree, and stone. [1836, John Greenleaf Whittier, Mogg Megone, A Poem, →OCLC:]

Etymology

1. 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.
2. Cognate with Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌹𐌸𐍃 (griþs, “step, grade”), Bavarian Gritt (“step, stride”), Lithuanian gri̇̀diju (“to go, wander”). See: Latin Nouns 'gradus', Gothic Nouns '𐌲𐍂𐌹𐌸𐍃'.