class
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
education
government
human-sciences
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
politics
sciences
set-theory
social-science
sociology
statistics
taxonomy
war
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.
Inflected forms:
form: classes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: classes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: classing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: classed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: classed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family' class.
That is one class-A heifer you got there, sonny.
Often used to imply membership of a large class.
This word has a whole class of metaphoric extensions.
So I ask you to accept my statement that my critics fall into two classes: on the one hand my immediate accusers, and on the other those earlier ones whom I have mentioned; […]
The Magpies are unbeaten and enjoying their best run since 1994, although few would have thought the class of 2011 would come close to emulating their ancestors.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
gloss: The division of society into classes.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.
gloss: Admirable behavior; elegance.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class.
gloss: A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The class was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story.
gloss: A series of lessons covering a single subject.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.
gloss: A single lesson in a series.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Tomorrow's class will cover long division.
gloss: A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy.
gloss: a grade, standard, level of education.
pos: noun
tags: India
countable
uncountable
gloss: A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: I used to fly business class, but now my company can only afford economy.
The City & South London was also the first British passenger railway to offer only one class.
gloss: A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida.
gloss: Best of its kind.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It is the class of Italian bottled waters.
The mark made by Cory a new Central A. U. mark and he appears to be the class of the field in this event.
University of Southern California's 7 to 0 defeat of the mighty Cardinal team ranked the victors the class of the far west
Roosevelt (14-1) looked very much like the class of the OIA.
gloss: A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
In the present section we shall discuss the various systems of set theory which admit, beside sets, also classes. Classes are like sets, except that they can be very comprehensive; an extreme example of a class is the class which contains all sets.[…]The main point which will, in our opinion, emerge from this analysis is that set theory with classes and set theory with sets only are not two separate theories; they are, essentially, different formulations of the same underlying theory.
gloss: A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: an abstract base class
gloss: One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To assign to a class; to classify.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.
She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
gloss: To be grouped or classed.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: the genus or family under which it classes
gloss: To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: great; fabulous
pos: adj
tags: Geordie
Ireland
not-comparable
slang
examples: To talented authors Tim Ash and Brian Reich for introducing me to John Wiley & Sons—a truly class outfit.
Synonyms: category
class
description
stripe
fashion
division
family
genre
ilk
kind
likes
race
rubric
set
sort
type
Related words: class action
class clown
class diagram
class enemy
class reunion
class struggle
class tourism
touch of class
binomial
biosystematics
brand
catalog
cladistics
classification
heading
hierarchy
nomenclature
rank
systematics
taxonomy
classify
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Derived words: abstract factory class
Aegis class cruiser
airman first class
anticlass
back-class
best in class
booking class
cattle class
Chern class
class A
classable
class action
class adapter pattern
class adviser
class-based
classbook
class break
class-conscious
class consciousness
classeme
class envy
classer
classfellow
class-free
classful
classhood
classicide
class invariant
classism
classist
classitis
class-leading
classlike
class list
classload
classloader
classloading
class M
classman
classmark
classmate
classness
class-orientation
classpath
class ring
class secretary
classtime
class tourist
class variable
classward
class warfare
class warrior
classwide
classwise
classwork
classy
coclass
complemented class
complexity class
concrete class
congruence class
conjugacy class
creative class
crossclass
crystal class
cut class
cyberclass
declass
derived class
disasterclass
donor class
economy class syndrome
eigenclass
Epstein class
equational class
ethnoclass
evening class
first-class
first-class continuation
first class match
fourth-class
generic class
God class
good class bungalow
high-class
hom class
home rule class
hyperclass
in-class
infraclass
interclass
interval class
intraclass
life class
low-class
lower class
lower-class
lower middle class
mapping class group
market class
master class
member class
midclass
middle-class
military load class
misclass
multiclass
Nassau-class
new class
nonclass
November class
opportunity class
other backward class
overclass
pointclass
postclass
preclass
primitive wrapper class
proper class
pseudoclass
reclass
residue class
ruling class
sandwich class
second-class
second-class continuation
ship of the line ensign first class
ship-of-the-line ensign first class
ship of the line ensign second class
ship-of-the-line ensign second class
spin class
subclass
superclass
teleclass
third-class
top-class
top of class
top of one's class
tourist class
transclass
trousered class
typeclass
underclass
upper-class
upper-class twit
upper middle class
videoclass
virtual class
warrant officer class 1
warrant officer class 2
weeder class
weight class
word class
working-class
world-class
outclass
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: набор
roman: nabor
lang: Catalan
word: classe
lang: Finnish
word: saapumiserä
lang: Greek
word: σειρά
roman: seirá