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
: to grade by age or organize by age-grades
an age-graded tribe
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