English Explanatory Dictionary

-grade

English dictionary entry

Meanings

suffix
  1. Describes a specified way of walking or locomotion, especially according to the limbs or organs utilized.
  2. Describes a specified direction.
  3. Describes a variation along a scale or gradient.

Word forms

-grade

Etymology

From Latin gradus (“step, degree”) and gradior (“walk”).

Related words

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