A LEVEL

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does A level mean? 

• A LEVEL (noun)
  The noun A LEVEL has 1 sense:

1. the advanced level of a subject taken in school (usually two years after O level)

  Familiarity information: A LEVEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• A LEVEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The advanced level of a subject taken in school (usually two years after O level)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("A level" is a kind of...):

grade; level; tier (a relative position or degree of value in a graded group)

Domain region:

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

A level of sedation in which a person is in a deep sleep, loses feeling, and is hard to wake up.

(Deep sedation, NCI Dictionary)

A level of awareness that can be described as consistently not responsive to stimuli.

(Loss of Consciousness, NCI Thesaurus)

“It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting it on a level with his own,” said Sherlock Holmes, laughing.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What a face he had, now that it was almost on a level with mine! what a great nose! and what a mouth! and what large prominent teeth!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A level of awareness that can be described as being alert.

(Conscious State, NCI Thesaurus)

A level of sedation in which a person is very relaxed and may be awake.

(Anxiolysis, NCI Dictionary)

A level of sedation in which a person is asleep but wakes when spoken to or touched.

(Conscious sedation, NCI Dictionary)

These women report on exposures and disease outcomes every two years and follow-up in the cohort has been maintained at a level of better than 90% through 1990.

(Nurses' Health Study, NCI Thesaurus)

But the moment before the rifle came to a level on him, he leaped sidewise behind the corner of the cabin.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Excellent friend! how sincerely you did love me, and endeavour to elevate my mind until it was on a level with your own.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)