class
/klas/
noun
Meaning
A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
"Often used to imply membership of a large class."
A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes; upper class, middle class and working class.
The division of society into classes.
"Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England."
Admirable behavior; elegance.
"Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class."
A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
"The class was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story."
A series of lessons covering a single subject.
"I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot."
A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
"The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy."
A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
"I used to fly business class, but now my company can only afford economy."
A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
"Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida."
Best of its kind.
"It is the class of Italian bottled waters."
A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.
A collection of sets definable by a shared property.
"Every set is a class, but classes are not generally sets. A class that is not a set is called a proper class."
A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set.
"an abstract base class"
One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.
verb
Meaning
To assign to a class; to classify.
"I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period."
To be grouped or classed.
To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
adjective
Meaning
Great; fabulous