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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