age–grade
Definition of age–grade
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
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First Known Use of age–grade
1894
age–grade
Definition of age–grade
: to grade by age or organize by age-grades an age-graded tribe
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Origin and Etymology of age–grade
1age-grade
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