class
IPA: kɫˈæs
noun
- (countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
- (sociology, countable) 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.
- (uncountable) The division of society into classes.
- (uncountable) Admirable behavior; elegance.
- (education, countable and uncountable) A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
- A series of lessons covering a single subject.
- (countable) A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
- (countable) A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
- (taxonomy, countable) A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
- Best of its kind.
- (statistics) A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.
- (set theory) A collection of sets definable by a shared property.
- (military) A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
- (object-oriented programming, countable) 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.
- (astronomy) Abbreviation of Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor.
- (astronomy) Abbreviation of Cosmology Large Angular Scale Survey.
verb
- (transitive) To assign to a class; to classify.
- (intransitive) To be grouped or classed.
- (transitive) To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
adjective
- (Ireland, Tyneside, slang) great; fabulous
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Examples of "class" in Sentences
- She is the secretary of the class and of the group as well.
- The target was to give the Group world class competitiveness.
- Cherish is the secretary of the class and of the group as well.
- It is a given that the peasantry, of course, is class stratified.
- Maybe a lecturer briefly mentioned the group in one of the classes.
- Relationship to the mapping class group and classification of braids.
- He was a teacher of course the bassoon and also of the ensemble class.
- The coarse equivalence class of this space is an invariant of the group.
- He was valedictorian of the Massachusetts Agricultural College class of 1875.
- He was the valedictorian of his graduating class in the College of Agriculture.