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# grad

«grad» in Mova's school dictionary: **a short, informal word for a graduate, a person who has…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (grad, grads) — informal

### meaning for a pupil

1) Grad is a short, informal word for a graduate, a person who has finished high school, college or university. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grad/#m1)

2) Grad school means a school for study after university. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grad/#m2)

3) A grad is also a small unit for measuring angles; 100 grads make a right angle, but degrees are used much more. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grad/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Rarely in the lessons; a person in the story, or a piece of a word like «grade» or «gradual». In everyday life in the USA and Canada: «grad» is the graduation party or ceremony. Phrases: «a new grad», «grad night», «grad school».

### examples

- Each grad got a diploma. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grad/#x1)
- 120 grads walked across the stage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grad/#x2)
- Read «grad» as «graduate». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grad/#x3)
- My cousin is a college grad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grad/#x4)
- The grads threw their caps in the air. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grad/#x5)
- Our school has a grad party in June. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grad/#x6)
- My aunt went to grad school to become a scientist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grad/#x7)
- Calculators can show angles in degrees or grads. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grad/#x8)

### note

No clue on its own; it names who is counted. Trap: it may be a cut piece of «grade» or «gradual». Informal: in writing, «graduate» is better. Do not mix grads and degrees: a right angle is 90 degrees.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «grad» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grad/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.