age-grade

1 of 2

noun

1

: a group of persons of the same sex and approximately the same age having certain definite duties and privileges in common and constituting a division of a tribe or society

2

: a stage (as boyhood, adolescence, or manhood) through which an age-grade passes

age-grade

2 of 2

transitive verb

: to grade by age or organize by age-grades

an age-graded tribe

Word History

Etymology

Transitive verb

¹age-grade

First Known Use

Noun

1894, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Transitive Verb

1922, in the meaning defined above

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