Grad
//ɡɹæd// noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Clipping of graduate. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of Grad. alt-of
- 3 A type of Soviet artillery multiple rocket launcher, or a rocket fired by this.
"It supplements the 220 mm BM-22 Uragan (‘Hurricane’) and 122 mm BM-21 Grad (‘Hail’) MRLs, already in service."
- 4 a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) wordnet
- 5 Clipping of graduation. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
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- 6 one-hundredth of a right angle wordnet
- 7 Abbreviation of gradian. abbreviation, alt-of
Example
More examples"Yuriko, a marine biology grad student, fell asleep inside a fish tank and awoke covered in octopuses and starfish."
Etymology
From Russian Град (Grad, “codename for a type of multiple rocket launcher”), from Russian град (grad, “hail”).
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