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fifth grade

fifth grade noun: the period in school that comes after fourth grade and before sixth grade.

Noun

fifth grade (plural fifth grades)

  1. (US) The period in school that comes after fourth grade and before sixth grade.
    • 4) The Psychology Research Institute of the China Academy of Sciences carried out an experiment in teaching arithmetic in coordination with algebra in two classes of the fifth grade in the No. 2 experimental elementary school in Peking with good results. At a unified examination in arithmetic held...1976 [1960], Ting-yi Lu, “Our Schooling System Must Be Reformed”, in Shi Ming Hu, Eli Seifman, editors, Toward a New World Outlook: A Documentary History of Education in the People's Republic of...
    Synonyms:
    grade five, grade 5

Synonyms of fifth grade

Forms of fifth grade

pluralfifth grades

Words formed from fifth grade

Questions about fifth grade

What does fifth grade mean?
Fifth grade means the period in school that comes after fourth grade and before sixth grade.
What part of speech is fifth grade?
Fifth grade is a noun.
What is the plural of fifth grade?
The plural of fifth grade is fifth grades.

Words near fifth grade in the dictionary

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  3. fifth freedom rights
  4. fifth gear
  5. fifth gears
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  7. fifth grader
  8. fifth graders
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  10. Fifth Monarchism
  11. Fifth Monarchist

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