| 单词 | age grade |
| 释义 | > as lemmasage grade age grade n. Cultural Anthropology and Sociology any one of a number of ritually marked life stages through which groups of similarly-aged people within a tribe, community, etc., move together; cf. age set n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [noun] > age group age grouping1862 age group1876 age grade1894 age set1929 1894 N. S. Shaler U.S.A. I. iv. 194 In every tribe there was a great variety of ranks and offices, and there often was a system of promotion from rank to rank, such promotion changing the relative age grade. 1906 N. W. Thomas Kinship Organisations i. 2 The other kind of association, to which the name age-grades is applied, is composed of a series of grades, through which..each man passes in succession, until he attains the highest. 2008 D. L. Hodgson in B. G. Smith Oxf. Encycl. Women in World Hist. (Electronic text) at Age Grades Approximately fifteen years later these men came together for another collective ritual that marked their promotion to the age grade of ‘elders’. < as lemmas |
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