Class
WordNet
noun
(1) Education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings
"He took a course in basket weaving"
"Flirting is not unknown in college classes"
(2) Elegance in dress or behavior
"She has a lot of class"
(3) People having the same social or economic status
"The working class"
"An emerging professional class"
(4) A collection of things sharing a common attribute
"There are two classes of detergents"
(5) (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
(6) A body of students who are taught together
"Early morning classes are always sleepy"
(7) A body of students who graduate together
"The class of '97"
"She was in my year at Hoehandle High"
(8) A league ranked by quality
"He played baseball in class D for two years"
"Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA"
verb
(9) Arrange or order by classes or categories
"How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
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Etymology
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Noun
- A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
- The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family' class.
- That is one class-A heifer you got there, sonny.
- Often used to imply membership of a large class.
- This word has a whole class of metaphoric extensions.
- 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 classes 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.
- A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set.
- A collection of sets definable by a shared property.
- The class of all sets is not a set.
- Best of its kind.
- It is the class of Italian bottled waters.
- A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
Verb
- To assign to a class.
- I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.
Related terms
- coach class
- steerage class