Dictionary Definition
class
Noun
1 people having the same social or economic
status; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class" [syn:
social
class, socio-economic
class]
2 a body of students who are taught together;
"early morning classes are always sleepy" [syn: form, grade]
3 education imparted in a series of lessons or
class meetings; "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is
not unknown in college classes" [syn: course, course of
study, course
of instruction]
4 a collection of things sharing a common
attribute; "there are two classes of detergents" [syn: category, family]
5 a body of students who graduate together; "the
class of '97"; "she was in my year at Hoehandle High" [syn:
year]
6 a league ranked by quality; "he played baseball
in class D for two years"; "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA"
[syn: division]
7 elegance in dress or behavior; "she has a lot
of class"
8 (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or
more orders v : arrange or order by classes or categories; "How
would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
[syn: classify,
sort, assort, sort out,
separate]
User Contributed Dictionary
Etymology
From classe, from classis.Noun
- A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or
attributes.
- The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family' class.
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- Often used to imply membership of a large class.
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- This word has a whole class of metaphoric extensions.
- 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.
- Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.
- Admirable behavior; elegance.
- Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class.
- In the context of "countable|and|uncountable": A group of
students in a regularly
scheduled meeting with a teacher.
- The class was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story.
- A series of classes covering a single subject.
- I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.
- A group of students who commenced or completed their education
during a particular year. A school
class.
- The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy.
- A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of
mass transportation.
- I used to fly business class, but now my company can only afford economy.
- In the context of "biology|taxonomy|countable": A rank in the classification of
organisms, below
phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank
- Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida.
- A set of objects possibly differing in state but not behavior.
- A collection of sets
definable by a shared property.
- The class of all sets is not a set.
Derived terms
rel-top Derived terms- social class
- class struggle
- upper class
- middle class
- working class
- pitch class
- form class
- noun class
- school class
- first class
- second class
- third class
- class reunion
- class clown
- class action
- professional class
- equivalence class
- spectral class
- class diagram
- character class
- economy class
- business class
Translations
group, collection, category or set sharing
characteristics or attributes
social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc.
division of society into classes
admirable behavior; elegance
group of students in a regularly scheduled
meeting with a teacher
series of classes covering a single subject
group of students who commenced or completed
their education during a particular year
category of seats in an airplane, train or other
means of mass transportation
classification below Phylum and above Order
programming: set of objects possibly differing
in state but not behavior
collection of sets definable by a shared
property
- ttbc Interlingua: classe
- ttbc Indonesian: kelas
- ttbc Portuguese: classe
- ttbc Romanian: clasă
Verb
- To assign to a class.
- I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.
Translations
to assign to a class
- Swedish: klassificera
Related terms
rel-top related termsExtensive Definition
Class may refer to:
General
- Social class, the hierarchical distinctions between groups in societies or cultures
- Class (education), a group of students attending a specific course or lesson
- Class (biology), a rank used in taxonomy
- Class (philosophy), distinguishes between classes and types
- Class (set theory), in mathematics
- Travel class, a quality of accommodation on public transport
- Classes of United States Senators, for describing the schedules of elections for Senate seats
- Community Leaders At Service of Society, a non-profit organization in Silicon Valley, California
- Income classification in cities of the Philippines
Media, entertainment and sport
- Character class in role-playing games and other genres
- Class (film), a romantic comedy released in 1983
- Class (1998 film), an independent film co-produced by Steve Howey
- Class: A Guide Through the American Status System, a book by Paul Fussell
- The Class, a people's choice award winning CBS sitcom.
- The Class, an Estonian film
- The Class ("Entre les murs"), prize-winning French film
- The Class (Erich Segal novel)
Technology and industry
- Appliance classes, in the electric appliance manufacturing industry
- Class (emission), a set of characteristics of a radio emission
- Ship class, a set of sea vessels that share essentially the same design
Computer science
- Class (computer science), an important notion in object-oriented programming
- Class (file format), the binary executable file format of Java
- Class (warez), a defunct group in the warez scene
- Class attribute, a feature of many HTML and XHTML elements, typically to identify them for styles
Railroads
- Class (locomotive), a single design of a locomotive as assigned by the railroad
- The classification of United States railroads according to revenue, specifically:
class in Belarusian (Tarashkevitsa): Кляса
class in Breton: Klas (digejañ)
class in Catalan: Classe
class in Czech: Třída
class in Danish: Klasse
class in German: Klasse
class in Spanish: Clase
class in Esperanto: Klaso
class in French: Classe
class in Galician: Clase
class in Korean: 클래스
class in Italian: Classe
class in Lithuanian: Klasė
class in Dutch: Klasse
class in Japanese: クラス
class in Norwegian: Klasse
class in Polish: Klasa
class in Portuguese: Classe
class in Romanian: Clasă (dezambiguizare)
class in Russian: Класс
class in Simple English: Class
class in Slovak: Trieda
class in Finnish: Luokka
class in Swedish: Klass
class in Vietnamese: Lớp
class in Turkish: Sınıf
class in Ukrainian: Клас
class in Chinese: 类
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
account, adherents, advantageousness,
agreeableness,
allot, alphabetize, analyze, animal kingdom,
antonomasia,
appraise, appreciate, arrange, ashram, assembly, assess, assign, assort, auspiciousness, bearing, beneficialness, benevolence, benignity, binomial
nomenclature, biosystematics, biosystematy, biotype, birth, blood, body, bracket, branch, brand, break down, breed, breeding, brethren, brood, caliber, call, caste, catalog, categorize, category, church, churchgoers, clan, classification, classify, codify, cogency, colony, color, commonwealth, commune, communion, community, condition, confession, congregation, consider, deme, denomination, descent, description, desert, digest, discernment, disciples, distinction, divide, division, domain, echelon, economic class,
elegance, endogamous
group, estate, estimate, evaluate, excellence, expedience, extended family,
extraction, factor, fairness, faith, family, favorableness, feather, figure, file, fineness, first-rateness,
flock, fold, folk, followers, footing, form, form an estimate, gauge, genotype, genre, gens, genus, give an appreciation,
glossology, goodliness, goodness, grace, grade, grain, group, grouping, guess, head, heading, healthiness, helpfulness, hierarchy, hold, house, identify, ilk, importance, index, ism, judge, kidney, kin, kind, kindness, kingdom, kinship group, label, laity, laymen, league, level, line, lineage, list, make an estimation, mark, matriclan, measure, merit, minyan, moiety, nation, nature, niceness, nomenclature, nonclerics, nonordained
persons, nuclear family, onomastics, onomatology, order, orismology, parish, parishioners, part, patriclan, pedigree, people, persuasion, phratria, phratry, phyle, phylum, pigeonhole, place, place-names, place-naming,
plant kingdom, pleasantness, polyonymy, position, power structure,
precedence, predicament, presence, prestige, prize, profitableness, quality, race, range, rank, rate, rating, realm, reckon, refinement, regard, rewardingness, rubric, savoir faire, school, score, sect, section, seculars, separate, sept, series, set, settlement, sheep, sift, skillfulness, social class,
society, sort, sort out, soundness, species, sphere, stage, stamp, standing, station, status, stem, stirps, stock, strain, stratum, stripe, style, subcaste, subclass, subdivide, subdivision, subfamily, subgenus, subgroup, subkingdom, suborder, subspecies, subtribe, superclass, superfamily, superiority, superorder, superspecies, systematics, tabulate, taste, taxonomy, terminology, thrash out,
tier, title, toponymy, totem, track, tribe, trinomialism, type, usefulness, validity, valuate, value, variety, virtue, virtuousness, weigh, wholeness, winnow, worth, year