yeargroup
yeargroup noun: the body of students corresponding to a particular grade level or year of study.
Noun
yeargroup (plural yeargroups)
- The body of students corresponding to a particular grade level or year of study.
- Social units intermediate in size between the individual and the whole school are discussed. These units are the year-groups, seen as developing collective perspectives which follow from the interaction between students' initial perspectives and their shared experiences, and the fraternities which...1992, Charles C. Ragin, Howard Saul Becker, What Is a Case?: Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry
- Some yeargroups broke down into cliques, usually dividing between the two primary training groups: hand-to-hand combat versus the marksmen.2016, J. Kathleen Cheney, Dreaming Death, page 255
Forms of yeargroup
| plural | yeargroups |
|---|---|
| alternative form | year-group |
Origin of yeargroup
From year + group.
Questions about yeargroup
- What does yeargroup mean?
- Yeargroup means the body of students corresponding to a particular grade level or year of study.
- What part of speech is yeargroup?
- Yeargroup is a noun.
- What is the plural of yeargroup?
- The plural of yeargroup is yeargroups.
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