class

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
2. (countable) 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. (uncountable) The division of society into classes.
4. (uncountable) Admirable behavior; elegance.
5. (countable, uncountable) A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
6. (countable, uncountable) A series of lessons covering a single subject.
7. (countable, uncountable) A single lesson in a series.
8. (countable) A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
9. (countable) A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
10. (countable) A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
11. (countable, uncountable) Best of its kind.
12. (countable, uncountable) A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.
13. (countable, uncountable) 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).
14. (countable, uncountable) A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
15. (countable) 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.
16. (countable, uncountable) One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.

Verb

1. (transitive) To assign to a class; to classify.
2. (intransitive) To be grouped or classed.
3. (transitive) To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.

Adj

great; fabulous

Synonyms

category

kind

sort

grade

type

rank

group

level

species

division

order

family

👪

genus

caste

lesson

variety

course

classify

degree

form

social class

community

people

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status

tribe

section

unit

set

body

rating

year

rate

series

flock

style

multitude

crowd

race

genre

assort

position

collection

stratum

classroom

classification

dignity

quality

layer

row

separate

Translations

classe

Klasse

clase

classe

classe

classe

klasse

sınıf

τάξη

klas

ceto

classis

catégorie

cours

Pronounced as (IPA)

/klɑːs/

Etymology

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.

Sentences

Class was dismissed due to a freak incident caused by a chemical spill .

The class was long-lived .

One of the trademarks of the series is the class system .

But it is not a class that was requested by our alumni or prospective students .

Somewhat in a class by itself is the Z-pinch, which has circular field lines .

For constant " k ", this is in the same complexity class as the Lucas-Lehmer test .