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Definition of 'CLASS'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) class
a number of persons or things regarded as belonging together because of common attributes, qualities, or traits; kind; sort.

2.  class
a group of students meeting regularly to study a subject under the guidance of a teacher.

3.  class
the period in which they meet.

4.  class
a meeting of such a group.

5.  class
a classroom.

6.  class
a group of students ranked together or graduated in the same year:
the class of '92.

7.  class
a social stratum sharing basic economic, political, or cultural characteristics, and having the same social position:
the blue-collar class.

8.  class
the system of dividing society; caste.

9.  class
social rank, esp. high rank.

10.  class
the members of a given group in society, regarded as a single entity:
the academic class.

11.  class
any division of persons or things according to rank or grade:
a hotel of the highest class.

12.  class
Informal. elegance, grace, or dignity, as in dress and behavior.

13.  class
any of several grades of accommodations available on ships, airplanes, and the like.

14.  class
the usual major subdivision of a phylum or division in the classification of organisms, usu. consisting of several orders.

15.  class
Math. a set; a collection.

16. (adj.) class
Informal. of high quality, rank, or grade:
a class act; a class performer.

17. (v.t.) class
to place or arrange in a class; classify:
to class doctors with lawyers.

18. (v.i.) class
to take or have a place in a particular class:
those who class as believers.

Definition of 'CLASS'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) class, category, family
a collection of things sharing a common attribute
"there are two classes of detergents"

2. (noun) class, form, grade, course
a body of students who are taught together
"early morning classes are always sleepy"

3. (noun) class, stratum, social class, socio-economic class
people having the same social, economic, or educational status
"the working class"; "an emerging professional class"

4. (noun) course, course of study, course of instruction, class
education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings
"he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not unknown in college classes"

5. (noun) class, division
a league ranked by quality
"he played baseball in class D for two years"; "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA"

6. (noun) class, year
a body of students who graduate together
"the class of '97"; "she was in my year at Hoehandle High"

7. (noun) class
(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders

8. (verb) class
elegance in dress or behavior
"she has a lot of class"

9. (verb) classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate
arrange or order by classes or categories
"How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"

Definition of 'CLASS'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) class
a group of students taught together
We were in the same class in tenth grade.; the class of '09

2.  class
a period of time when students are being taught
to work hard in class; to take a math/science/French class

3.  class
one of the social and economic groups society is divided up into
the working/middle/upper class

4.  class
a category of things
different classes of medication

5.  class
one of the levels or qualities of a product or service that is available
first/second class mail; It was so good, it was in a class of its own.

6.  class
the level of a university degree
***a first class degree

Definition of 'CLASS'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) CLASS
a group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes

2. (noun) CLASS
a number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies

3. (noun) CLASS
a comprehensive division of animate or inanimate objects, grouped together on account of their common characteristics, in any classification in natural science, and subdivided into orders, families, tribes, genera, etc

4. (noun) CLASS
a set; a kind or description, species or variety

5. (noun) CLASS
one of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader

6. (noun) CLASS
to arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages

7. (noun) CLASS
to divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes

8. (verb) CLASS
to grouped or classed

Translation of 'CLASS'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a group of people or things that are alike in some way The dog won first prize in its class in the dog show.
Afrikaans: klas	Arabic: صِنْف	Bulgarian: категория
Brazilian: categoria	Czech: třída	German: die Gruppe
Danish: klasse	Greek: κατηγορία	Spanish: clase
Estonian: klass	Farsi: رده؛ گروه	Finnish: luokka
French: classe	Hebrew: סוּג	Hindi: वर्ग
Croatian: razred, vrsta	Hungarian: osztály (rendszertani egy	Indonesian: golongan
Icelandic: flokkur	Italian: categoria	Japanese: 種類
Korean: (사람, 물건의) 부류	Lithuanian: klasė, kategorija	Latvian: grupa; kategorija
Malay: golongan	Dutch: categorie	Norwegian: klasse, art, slag
Polish: klasa, kategoria	Persian: رده؛ گروه	Pashto: طبقه
Portuguese: categoria	Romanian: categorie	Russian: класс; разряд
Slovak: trieda	Slovenian: razred	Serbian: klasa
Swedish: klass	Thai: หมวดหมู่	Turkish: sınıf, tür, cins
Taiwanese: 類別	Ukrainian: розряд; група	Urdu: قسم ،نوع
Vietnamese: hạng	Chinese: 类别
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