degree
/dɪˈɡɹiː/
degree noun: a completed curriculum of study in tertiary education.
Noun
degree (plural degrees)
- A completed curriculum of study in tertiary education.
- She has two bachelor's degrees and is studying towards a master's degree.
- A unit of measurement of angle equal to ¹⁄₃₆₀ of a circle's circumference.
- A right angle is a ninety-degree angle.
- Most humans have a field of vision of almost 180 degrees.
- Synonyms:
- °, arcdegree
- A unit of measurement of temperature on any of several scales, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit.
- 212 degrees Fahrenheit is equal to 100 degrees Celsius.
- Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.
- Synonyms:
- °
- The sum of the exponents of a term; the order of a polynomial.
- A quadratic polynomial is a polynomial of degree 2.
- The dimensionality of a field extension.
- The set of complex numbers constitutes a field extension of degree 2 over the real numbers.
- The Galois field #92;operatorname#123;GF#125;(125)#61;#92;operatorname#123;GF#125;(5³) has degree 3 over its subfield #92;operatorname#123;GF#125;(5).
- The number of edges that a vertex takes part in; a valency.
- The number of logical connectives in a formula.
- The curvature of a circular arc, expressed as the angle subtended by a fixed length of arc or chord.
- A unit of measurement of latitude and longitude which together identify a location on the Earth's surface.
- Synonyms:
- °
- Any of the stages (like positive, comparative, superlative, elative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb.
- A step on a set of stairs; the rung of a ladder.
- An individual step, or stage, in any process or scale of values.
- The chazzan-artist of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Eastern Europe where the chazzan reached the highest degree as an artist, casting from himself all those tasks historically associated with his office which drew him down to the station of beadle and servitor of the community.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 181
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- A stage of rank or privilege; social standing.
- And they axed hym ſayinge: Maſter / we knowe that thou ſayest / and teacheſt ryght / nether conſidereſt thou eny mãnes degre / but teacheſt the waye of god truely.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, The Gospell off S. Luke xx:[21], folio cx, recto
- But when Adam delued, and Eue ſpan,
VVho was then a Gentleman.
Brethren, brethren, it were better to haue this communitie,
Then to haue this difference in degrees:
The landlord his rent, the lawyer his fees.
So quickly the poore mans ſubſtance is ſpent […]1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], →OCLC, Act I
- A ‘step’ in genealogical descent.
- Louis created the École militaire in Paris in 1751, in which 500 scholarships were designated for noblemen able to prove four degrees of noble status.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 140
- One's relative state or experience; way, manner.
- If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
- The amount that an entity possesses a certain property; relative intensity, extent.
- To what degree do the two accounts of the accident concur?
- In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
Proper noun capitalized: Degree
Degree
- A surname.
degree meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
degree in Hindi
- academic award
- उपाधि upādhi
- unit of measurement of temperature
- डिग्री ḍigrī, अंश añś
- geometry: unit of measurement of angle
- अंश añś
- algebra: the maximal exponent of a polynomial
- घात ghāt
degree in Tamil
- பாகை, வெப்ப அலகு, பல்கலைக்கழகப் பட்டம்
degree in Marathi
- academic award
- डिग्री ḍigrī
degree in Urdu
- unit of measurement of temperature
- ڈگری ḍigrī, درجہ daraja
- geometry: unit of measurement of angle
- ڈگری ḍigrī, درجہ daraja
More languagesFewer languages
- degree in Bengali
- ডিগ্রী ḍigri
- degree in Telugu
- డిగ్రీ ḍigrī
- degree in Malayalam
- ബിരുദം birudaṁ
- degree in Kannada
- ಕೋನಮಾನ, ಉಷ್ಣಾಂಶಮಾನ, ದರ್ಜೆ, ಅಂತಸ್ತು
- degree in Punjabi
- ਅੰਸ਼ ãśa
- degree in Gujarati
- ઉપાધિ upādhi, અધિકાર adhikār
- degree in Sinhala
- තරම tarama
- degree in Pashto
- درجه daraǰá
- degree in Tagalog
- antas
- degree in Arabic
- شِهَادَة šihāda, دَرَجَة daraja
- degree in Malay
- darjah, derajat
- degree in Indonesian
- sarjana, derajat
- degree in Persian
- درجه dareje, زینه zine
- degree in Thai
- ปริญญา bpà-rin-yaa, องศา ong-sǎa, ดีกรี dii-grii
- degree in Vietnamese
- học vị, độ, bậc, mức
- degree in Myanmar
- ဒီဂရီ diga.ri
Examples of degree in a sentence
- The temperature in the room dropped nearly 20 degrees; it went from hot to cold.
- Our school focuses primarily on the liberal arts (read "useless degrees").
- By my readings, we're bearing due south, so we should turn about ten degrees east.
Synonyms of degree
Forms of degree
| plural | degrees |
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Origin of degree
From Middle English degre, borrowed from Old French degré (French: degré), itself from Latin gradus, with the prefix de-.
Words formed from degree
- 180-degree rule
- 22-degree halo
- 360-degree
- 360 degree feedback
- 45-degree rule
- academic degree
- advanced degree
- arts degree
- associate degree
- associate's degree
- bachelor degree
- bachelor's degree
- bidegree
- codegree
- combined degree
- comparative degree
- crank angle degree
- degree absolute
- degree Celsius
- degree centigrade
- degreed
- degree day
- degree-day
- degree days
- degree Fahrenheit
- degree Kelvin
- degreeless
- degree mill
- degree of comparison
- degree of freedom
- degree of frost
- degree of glory
- degree of ionization
- degree of polymerization
- degree place
- degree Rankine
- degree sequence
- double degree
- drinking man's degree
- dual degree
- equative degree
- external degree
- first-degree
- first-degree burn
- first-degree murder
- first-degree relative
- forbidden degree
- foundation degree
- fourth-degree
- fourth-degree burn
- gram degree
- gramme degree
- honorary degree
- honorary master's degree
- honors degree
- honours degree
- hyperdegree
- indegree
- in-degree
- Lambeth degree
Phrases with degree
- MRS degree
- Mrs. degree
- pass degree
- to a degree
- degree mills
- scale degree
- third degree
- degree places
- square degree
- Turing degree
- master's degree
- positive degree
15 more phrasesFewer phrases
- sandwich degree
- degree sequences
- Levitical degree
- to the nth degree
- superlative degree
- Mickey Mouse degree
- 360 degree feedbacks
- thin sandwich degree
- transcendence degree
- degree apprenticeship
- thick sandwich degree
- murder in the first degree
- murder in the second degree
- murders in the first degree
- murders in the second degree
Words that rhyme with degree
Questions about degree
- What does degree mean?
- Degree means a completed curriculum of study in tertiary education.
- What is degree in Hindi?
- Degree in Hindi is उपाधि (upādhi), अंश (añś), डिग्री (ḍigrī). See Degree meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is degree?
- Degree can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce degree?
- Degree is pronounced /dɪˈɡɹiː/.
- What is the plural of degree?
- The plural of degree is degrees.
Words near degree in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: degree (page history and authors); Degree (page history and authors); degree (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); డిగ్రీ (Telugu) (page history and authors); degree (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਅੰਸ਼ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); અધિકાર (Gujarati) (page history and authors); තරම (Sinhala) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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