grad

1 of 3

noun or adjective

ˈgrad How to pronounce grad (audio)
: graduate

grad

2 of 3

noun

: one hundredth of a right angle

grad

3 of 3

abbreviation

graduated

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That’s a shift from recent trends that saw young workers leave San Francisco for more affordable cities like Nashville and Orlando, and from rankings that name cheaper Midwest and Texas cities as the best places for new grads. — Andrew McGowan, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026 Education level divides Americans as well — just 47 percent of Americans without four-year degrees reported believing that science benefits most people, compared to 71 percent of college grads. — Nicholas Florko, STAT, 10 Oct. 2026
Noun
Google hired the Stanford professor behind the winning team, a German machine-learning expert named Sebastian Thrun, and a Berkeley grad student named Anthony Levandowski. — Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026 That’s a shift from recent trends that saw young workers leave San Francisco for more affordable cities like Nashville and Orlando, and from rankings that name cheaper Midwest and Texas cities as the best places for new grads. — Andrew McGowan, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026 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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