Synonym: amount, extent, grade, honor, measure, notch, period, rank, step, title. Similar words: the greenhouse effect, degrade, degradation, regret, green, greet, Greek, agree. Meaning: [dɪ'griː] 
n. 1. a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality 2. a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process 3. an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study 4. a unit of temperature on a specified scale 5. a measure for arcs and angles 6. the highest power of a term or variable 7. the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime).
n. 1. a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality 2. a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process 3. an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study 4. a unit of temperature on a specified scale 5. a measure for arcs and angles 6. the highest power of a term or variable 7. the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime). 
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151. She saw a college degree as her path to success.
152. The amount of damages awarded are proportioned to the degree of injury caused.
153. The more obvious potential allies are Ireland, Denmark and, to a lesser degree, the Netherlands.
154. His ambition was consummated when he received his doctor's degree from Cambridge.
155. The number of terrorist attacks has increased to a terrifying degree.
156. Their wages do, however, allow them a degree of independence.
157. He is now reading for a maths degree at Surrey University.
158. I got the third degree when I got home last night.
159. The fact she was here implies a degree of interest.
160. He didn't like the degree of sexual explicitness in the film.
161. The psychiatrist must learn to maintain an unusual degree of objectivity.
162. This degree of inequality was by no means true of all Victorian marriages.
163. She has also been affected, but to a lesser degree.
164. He took his degree in 1665 before embarking on the grand tour .
165. A degree in English could lead to a career in journalism.
166. A degree is an essential prerequisite for employment at this level.
167. In many courses[sentencedict.com], work from the second year onwards can count towards the final degree.
168. You'll stand a better chance of getting a job with a degree.
169. It was possible to date these remains with a fair degree of accuracy.
170. The course is more practically based than the Masters degree.sentencedict.com/degree.html
171. This degree offers a major specialisation in Social Policy alongside a course in Sociology.
172. A nimble mind backed by a degree in economics gave him a firm grasp of financial matters.
173. One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience. George Sand 
174. Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read, it merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity. Margaret Mead
175. The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
176. The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts. Bertrand Russell
177. Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else. Theodore Roosevelt
178. Honorary degree Ministry of Education not approbatory.
179. The teachers'motives and their actual degree of participation are highly correlative.
180. However, Dahlsrud finds that the existing definitions to a large degree are congruent.
More similar words: the greenhouse effect, degrade, degradation, regret, green, greet, Greek, agree, regressive, agree to, agree on, disagree, agree with, agreement, agreeable, disagreeable, a bad egg, degenerate, begrudge, integrate, cablegram, integrity, integrated, integration, middle ground, on the grounds of, great, free, tree, creep.