age-grade
1 of 2noun
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
2 of 2transitive verb
: to grade by age or organize by age-grades
an age-graded tribe
Word History
Etymology
and Transitive verb
First Known Use
Noun
1894, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Transitive Verb
1922, in the meaning defined above