/dɪˈɡriː/
Translation
The title you are given when you finish your studies at a university.
Word origin
From Old French degre, a step or a stair, from Latin gradus, a step.
- Origin
- Old French
- Root
- degre
- English cognates
- grade, gradual
Grammar
Examples
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A "degree" is what a university gives you when you finish.
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A "degree" is also one step on a scale for measuring heat.
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"To some degree" means partly, not completely.
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Grammar articles
(6)As vs like in English: swims like a fish, works as a waiter, and the truth about like I said
Future tense in English: will, going to and more explained
Gradable and ungradable adjectives: why very furious sounds wrong, and which intensifier goes where
Inversion and word order in English: the subject-verb-object spine and when it flips
So, such, too and enough in English: words of degree and result
Word formation with prefixes: un-, in-, im-, dis-, re-, over-, under- and mis-
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