class

/klas//kleəs/

noun

  1. 1

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

    Often used to imply membership of a large class.
  2. 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. 3

    The division of society into classes.

    Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.
  4. 4

    Admirable behavior; elegance.

    Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class.
  5. 5

    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.
  6. 6

    A series of lessons covering a single subject.

    I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.
  7. 7

    A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.

    The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy.
  8. 8

    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.
  9. 9

    A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.

    Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida.
  10. 10

    Best of its kind.

    It is the class of Italian bottled waters.
  11. 11

    A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.

  12. 12

    A collection of sets definable by a shared property.

    Every set is a class, but classes are not generally sets. A class that is not a set is called a proper class.
  13. 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. 14

    A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set.

    an abstract base class
  15. 15

    One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.

verb

  1. 1

    To assign to a class; to classify.

    I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.
  2. 2

    To be grouped or classed.

  3. 3

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Great; fabulous

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