Definition of CLASS

class

Plural: classes

Noun

  • a collection of things sharing a common attribute
    • "there are two classes of detergents"
  • a body of students who are taught together
    • "early morning classes are always sleepy"
  • people having the same social, economic, or educational status
    • "the working class"
    • "an emerging professional class"
  • education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings
    • "flirting is not unknown in college classes"
  • a league ranked by quality
    • "he played baseball in class D for two years"
  • a body of students who graduate together
    • "the class of '97"
  • (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
  • elegance in dress or behavior
    • "she has a lot of class"
  • A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
  • 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.
  • The division of society into classes.
  • Admirable behavior; elegance.
  • A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
  • A series of lessons covering a single subject.
  • A single lesson in a series.
  • A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
  • A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
  • A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
  • Best of its kind.
  • A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.
  • 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).
  • A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
  • 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.
  • One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.

Verb

Verb Forms: classed, classing, classes

  • To categorize or group according to shared characteristics.
  • arrange or order by classes or categories
    • "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
  • To assign to a class; to classify.
  • To be grouped or classed.
  • To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.

Adj

  • great; fabulous

Examples

  • an abstract base class
  • Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class.
  • Every set is a class, but classes are not generally sets. A class that is not a set is called a proper class.
  • He tried to CLASS his Words With Friends opponents by their opening moves.
  • I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.
  • I used to fly business class, but now my company can only afford economy.
  • I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.
  • It is the class of Italian bottled waters.
  • Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.
  • Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida.
  • Often used to imply membership of a large class.
  • That is one class-A heifer you got there, sonny.
  • The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy.
  • The class of all sets is not a set.
  • The class was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story.
  • The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family' class.
  • This word has a whole class of metaphoric extensions.
  • Tomorrow's class will cover long division.

Origin / 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.

Synonyms

assort, category, classify, course, course of instruction, course of study, division, family, form, grade, separate, social class, socio-economic class, sort, sort out, stratum, year, class, genre, ilk, kind, likes, race, rubric, set, type

Scrabble Score: 7

class: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
class: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
class: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

class: valid Words With Friends Word