Meaning: Calibre means the level of someone’s intelligence or the standard of something, especially when it is high. It also indicates the diameter of a gun barrel or tube. It is used as a noun.
Origin: The term comes from the French calibre meaning “social standing or importance”, from Italian calibro, from Arabic qalib “a mould for casting” which in turn was based on the Greek kalapous “a shoemaker’s last. The earliest sense of the word in English meant “degree of merit or importance”. Over time it came to indicate “one’s intellectual capacity.” The term is said to have been in use since the mid 16th Century.
Usage:
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He was very much impressed by the high calibre of his interns.
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The organisation cannot afford to lose a woman of her calibre.
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