1. grades - Noun
2. grades - Verb
grades
plural of grade
grades pl (plural only)
Grammar school, primary school, or the years of school prior to high school.
grades
third-person singular simple present indicative of grade
But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. Ronald Reagan
The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students. Carl David Anderson
The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology. Murray Bookchin
I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out. Kent McCord
I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades. Levon Helm
We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. [...] One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life. S. I. Hayakawa