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-grade

-grade suffix: describes a specified way of walking or locomotion, especially according to the limbs or organs utilized.

Suffix

-grade (adjective-forming suffix, not comparable)

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

Forms of -grade

plural-grades

Origin of -grade

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

Questions about -grade

What does -grade mean?
-grade means describes a specified way of walking or locomotion, especially according to the limbs or organs utilized.
What part of speech is -grade?
-grade is a suffix.

Words near -grade in the dictionary

  1. -gonium
  2. -gony
  3. -goon
  4. -got-
  5. -gov-
  6. -grade
  7. -grades
  8. -gram
  9. -gramme
  10. -graph
  11. -grapher

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