Grade and Year

Grade

Grade noun - An individual part of a process, series, or ranking.

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Year and grade are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Year" instead a noun "Grade".

Nearby Words: graded, gradation, graduation, grading, grader

Year noun - The period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun.

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Grade and year are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Grade" instead a noun "Year".

Nearby Words: yearly, yearling

full	full grade	full year
best	best grade	best year
particular	particular grade	particular year
specific	specific grade	specific year
Other adjectives: certain, current, single, actual, entire, real, bad, passing, past, mere, extra, worst, next, different, eighth, fifth, seventh, tenth.

Either way he gets forced to repeat the year/grade with people younger than themselves.

Source: Held Back in School
Anais from The Amazing World of Gumball is only four, but is so intelligent that she's already in the eighth grade, a year higher than her 12-year-old brother, Gumball.

Source: Grade Skipper
Invoked in Problem Child 2; Junior is skipped ahead to the sixth grade so that Principal Peabody will be rid of him in a year instead of three years.

Source: Grade Skipper

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