degre
Middle English
/dɛːˈɡreː/
noun
Definitions
- Someone's personal characteristics, position, or background:
- The state, quality, or status of something; something's current characteristics:
- (geometry) An angular measurement amounting to 1/360 of a circle.
- A measurement of time amounting to around four minutes.
- A degree educational qualification handed out by tertiary institutions
- A step, gree or rung; a part of a staircase.
- A stage as part of a scale of virtues or values.
- (rare) The length covered by a step or movement of one's feet.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French degré affix from Middle English gre.
Origin
Middle English
gre
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- arcdegree English
- bidegree English
- codegree English
- degree English
- degreed English
- degreeless English
- gree English
- hyperdegree English
- indegree English
- microdegree English
- millidegree English
- multidegree English
- nondegree English
- outdegree English
- predegree English
- subdegree English
- gradus Latin
- degré French
- gre Middle English
- greable Middle English
- green Middle English
- degré Old French
- gré Old French
- ดีกรี Thai
- డిగ్రీ Telugu
- dégré Norman
- ဒီဂရီ Burmese
- digrii Swahili