age-grade

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Definition of age-grade

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1 : a group of persons of the same sex and approximately the same age having certain definite duties and privileges in common and constituting a division of a tribe or society

2 : a stage (as boyhood, adolescence, or manhood) through which an age-grade passes

age-grade

transitive verb

Definition of age-grade (Entry 2 of 2)

: to grade by age or organize by age-grades an age-graded tribe

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The first known use of age-grade was in 1894

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