A rating. / (chiefly Canada, US) Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.

(chiefly Canada, US) To assign scores to the components of an academic test, or to overall academic performance. / To organize in grades.

plural of grade

Grammar school, primary school, or the years of school prior to high school.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grade

simple past tense and past participle of grade

Having been smoothed by a grader. / Forming a series decreasing or increasing in intensity of a given quality.

(Northern England) of a person; decent, well-meaning, respectable / excellent / handsome, fair / real, proper

properly, really

(US) Describing a junction or intersection where two or more transport axes cross at the same level (or grade).