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class

/klas/

Phonetics

/klas/

/kleəs/

noun

A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
Example: 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.
Example: Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.
Admirable behavior; elegance.
Example: 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.
Example: The class was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story.
A series of lessons covering a single subject.
Example: 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.
Example: The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy.
A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
Example: 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.
Example: Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida.
Best of its kind.
Example: 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.
Example: 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.
Example: an abstract base class
One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.

verb

To assign to a class; to classify.
Example: 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

Great; fabulous