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class.

A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.

5 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/klɑːs/New-England, Received-Pronunciation/klæs/Northern-England, Scotland/klas/Northern-England, Scotland/klæs/General-American, New-York-City
  1. A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.

    countable
    The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family' class.
    That is one class-A heifer you got there, sonny.
  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.

    countable
  3. The division of society into classes.

    uncountable
    Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.
  4. Admirable behavior; elegance.

    uncountable
    Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class.
  5. A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.

    countable · uncountable
    The class was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story.
  6. A series of lessons covering a single subject.

    countable · uncountable
    I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.
  7. A single lesson in a series.

    countable · uncountable
    Tomorrow's class will cover long division.
  8. A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.

    countable
    The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy.
  9. a grade, standard, level of education.

    India · countable · uncountable
  10. A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.

    countable
    I used to fly business class, but now my company can only afford economy.
  11. A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.

    countable
    Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida.
  12. Best of its kind.

    countable · uncountable
    It is the class of Italian bottled waters.
  13. A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.

    countable · uncountable
  14. 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).

    countable · uncountable
    The class of all sets is not a set.
    Every set is a class, but classes are not generally sets. A class that is not a set is called a proper class.
  15. A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.

    countable · uncountable
  16. 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.

    countable
    an abstract base class
  17. One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.

    countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

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. Displaced Old English ġecynd.

verb/klɑːs/New-England, Received-Pronunciation/klæs/Northern-England, Scotland/klas/Northern-England, Scotland/klæs/General-American, New-York-City
  1. To assign to a class; to classify.

    transitive
    I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.
  2. To be grouped or classed.

    intransitive
  3. To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.

    transitive
Where this word comes from

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. Displaced Old English ġecynd.

adj/klɑːs/New-England, Received-Pronunciation/klæs/Northern-England, Scotland/klas/Northern-England, Scotland/klæs/General-American, New-York-City
  1. great; fabulous

    Geordie · Ireland · not-comparable · slang
Where this word comes from

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. Displaced Old English ġecynd.

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