class

Meanings

Noun

• 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 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.
• 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

• 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.

Adjective

• great; fabulous

Related

Narrower meaning words

• business class
• character class
• economy class
• equivalence class
• first class
• form class
• hard class
• middle class
• noun class
• pitch class
• professional class
• school class
• second class
• social class
• spectral class
• superclass
• third class
• upper class
• working class
• en
• abstract class
• anonymous class
• base class
• child class
• class diagram
• convenience class
• factory class
• final class
• inner class
• local class
• metaclass
• nested class
• outer class
• parent class
• partial class
• static class
• subclass
• wrapper class
• seminar

Origin

• 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-. classis.