"thirteenth grade" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: thirteenth grades [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} thirteenth grade (plural thirteenth grades)
  1. (US, education) The year in school that comes after twelfth grade in some schools in the US, and that came after twelfth grade before 1988 in Ontario, Canada. Tags: US Categories (topical): Education Translations (13th year in school): kolmastoista luokka (english: does not technically exist in Finland, but sometimes used of the third year in lukio) (Finnish), dreizehnte Klasse [feminine] (German), clasă a treisprezecea [feminine] (Romanian), clasă a treișpea [colloquial, feminine] (Romanian)
    Sense id: en-thirteenth_grade-en-noun-Xf1L5i3A Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Romanian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 60 40 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 58 42 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 63 37 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 64 36 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 63 37 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 61 39 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 63 37 Topics: education Disambiguation of '13th year in school': 80 20
  2. (US, education, derogatory, humorous) A reference to college as nothing more than a continuation of high school, since secondary education typically ends after the twelfth grade. Tags: US, derogatory, humorous Categories (topical): Education
    Sense id: en-thirteenth_grade-en-noun-dCHBbnQy Categories (other): American English Topics: education
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: grade thirteen, grade 13, supersenior [Canada, Ontario, historical] Derived forms: thirteenth grader

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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