class

Meaning

1. A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
2. 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.
3. The division of society into classes.
4. Admirable behavior; elegance.
5. A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
6. A series of lessons covering a single subject.
7. A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
8. A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
9. A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
10. Best of its kind.
11. A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.
12. A collection of sets definable by a shared property, especially one which is not itself a set (in which case the class is called proper).
13. A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
14. A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set in terms of its common properties, functions, etc.
15. One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/klɑːs/

From Middle French classe, from Latin classis (“a class or division of the people, assembly of people, the whole body of citizens called to arms, the army, the fleet, later a class or division in general”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, shout”). Doublet of clas and classis.

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