grad

2 of 3

noun

: one hundredth of a right angle

grad

3 of 3

abbreviation

graduated

Examples of grad in a Sentence

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Noun or adjective
Little, 79, told guests of his lifetime friendship with Moore and of how both were grads of Miami’s Booker T. Washington Senior High School in Overtown. Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 18 Jan. 2025 District Attorney Peter Gilchrist gave the job of first convicting Wallace then persuading jurors to put him on Death Row to Marsha Goodenow, a veteran homicide prosecutor, and Anne Tompkins, a West Charlotte High School and UNC Charlotte grad who was a few years into her career at the DA’s office. Michael Gordon, Charlotte Observer, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
With this in mind, the education experts at Legacy Online School analyzed graduate outcome data to identify the highest-earning states for grads and the most lucrative degree subjects. Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025 Of course, Brooks misses the irony that if this anti-Ivy League resentment drove voters, then is drove them to vote for the GOP ticket of two Ivy Leaguer grads, Donald Trump from Penn and J.D. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 28 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for grad 

Word History

Etymology

Noun or adjective

by shortening

Noun

French grade degree, from Latin gradus

First Known Use

Noun Or Adjective

circa 1871, in the meaning defined above

Noun

1898, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of grad was circa 1871

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“Grad.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grad. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.

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