class

A1
Pronunciation
/klas/
/klas/
/kleษ™s/
Noun
15 definition(s)
1 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • Often used to imply membership of a large class.
2 Definition

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 Definition

The division of society into classes.

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

Admirable behavior; elegance.

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

A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.

Example Sentences
  • The class was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story.
6 Definition

A series of lessons covering a single subject.

Example Sentences
  • I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.
7 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy.
8 Definition

A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.

Example Sentences
  • I used to fly business class, but now my company can only afford economy.
9 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida.
10 Definition

Best of its kind.

Example Sentences
  • It is the class of Italian bottled waters.
11 Definition

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

12 Definition

A collection of sets definable by a shared property.

Example Sentences
  • Every set is a class, but classes are not generally sets. A class that is not a set is called a proper class.
13 Definition

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 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • an abstract base class
15 Definition

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

Verb
3 definition(s)
1 Definition

To assign to a class; to classify.

Example Sentences
  • I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.
2 Definition

To be grouped or classed.

3 Definition

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

Adjective
1 definition(s)
1 Definition

Great; fabulous