Definitions for gradus

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gradus gra·dus

Spelling: [grey-duh s]

IPA: /ˈgreɪ dəs/

Gradus is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 130 anagrams from letters in gradus (adgrsu).

Definitions for gradus

noun

1. a work consisting wholly or in part of exercises of increasing difficulty.
2. a dictionary of prosody, especially one that gives word quantities and poetic phrases and that is intended to aid students in the writing of Latin and Greek verse.

Origin of gradus

Latin: grade, step

Examples for gradus

Well, then get your gradus, and put your foot in that first step of the ladder.

The most rational progress toward Parnassus was by a gradus, or step, they said.

"Of all men else at the bar, I know of no one whom I so much wish to encounter," said gradus.

Fux, the well-known old theorist and composer, in Vienna, author of the "gradus ad Parnassum."

Tausig was for gradus, you know, and practiced it himself every day.

It's very easy to be a Poet, but you must have recourse to your gradus.

Gressus is a step that is being taken; gradus that is taken.

Except that gradus misses Kinbote and mortally wounds Shade.

His "gradus ad Parnassum" became the parent of Etude literature.

These when harnessed to a “gradus” as a break were very safe and steady.