degree
a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,399 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 13,154 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.006% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality also: grade, level a moderate grade of intelligencea high level of care is required
- a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process also: level, stage, point a remarkable degree of franknessat what stage are the social sciences?
- an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study also: academic degree he earned his degree at Princeton summa cum laude
- a measure for arcs and angles also: arcdegree there are 360 degrees in a circle
- the highest power of a term or variable
- a unit of temperature on a specified scale the game was played in spite of the 40-degree temperature
degree in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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You have an exceptional degree, and I presume a fair knowledge of the world.
The Betrayal · E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim · Chapter 1
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But a limit there was—a check, d’ ye see: Those fine young aristocrats knew their degree.
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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Successful in all his examinations and disputations, he received the degree of Doctor of Law at Nuremberg in 1676.
Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems Part 6 From — Volume I · John Greenleaf Whittier · Chapter 1
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In 1866 the degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on him by Harvard University, and he was chosen an Overseer.
Poems Household Edition · Ralph Waldo Emerson · Chapter 1
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In all other respects never did a man, to such a degree, become so utterly indifferent to his wife and children.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1