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Definition of age-grade
(Entry 1 of 2)
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 verbDefinition 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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