thirteenth grade

English

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.
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.

   You went to community college? That's nothing but the thirteenth grade

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Synonyms

• grade thirteen, grade 13, supersenior (Canada, Ontario, historical)

Derived terms

• thirteenth grader

Translations

13th year in school

• Finnish: kolmastoista luokka (does not technically exist in Finland, but sometimes used of the third year in lukio)
• German: dreizehnte Klasse f
• Romanian: clasă a treisprezecea f, clasă a treișpea f (colloquial)