CLASS

course, course of study, course of instruction, class

(noun) education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings; “he took a course in basket weaving”; “flirting is not unknown in college classes”

class

(noun) elegance in dress or behavior; “she has a lot of class”

class, stratum, social class, socio-economic class

(noun) people having the same social, economic, or educational status; “the working class”; “an emerging professional class”

class, category, family

(noun) a collection of things sharing a common attribute; “there are two classes of detergents”

class

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

class, form, grade, course

(noun) a body of students who are taught together; “early morning classes are always sleepy”

class, year

(noun) a body of students who graduate together; “the class of ’97”; “she was in my year at Hoehandle High”

class, division

(noun) a league ranked by quality; “he played baseball in class D for two years”; “Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA”

classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate

(verb) arrange or order by classes or categories; “How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

class (countable and uncountable, plural classes)

(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, countable) A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set.

One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.

Synonyms

• See also class

Hyponyms

• business class

• character class

• economy class

• equivalence class

• first class

• form class

• middle class

• noun class

• pitch class

• professional class

• school class

• second class

• social class

• spectral class

• superclass

• third class

• upper class

• working class

(programming, object-oriented: A set of objects having the same behavior or a template defining such a set):

• 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

• superclass

• wrapper class

• (lesson on a single subject): preceptorial, lecture, seminar

Verb

class (third-person singular simple present classes, present participle classing, simple past and past participle classed)

(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

class (not comparable)

(Irish, British, slang) great; fabulous

Proper noun

CLASS (plural er-noun)

(astronomy) Abbreviation of Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor.

(astronomy) Abbreviation of Cosmology Large Angular Scale Survey.

Source: Wiktionary

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Class, n. Etym: [F. classe, fr. L. classis class, collection, fleet; akin to Gr. claim, haul.]

1. A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.

2. A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.

3. 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, gemera, etc.

4. A set; a kind or description, species or variety. She had lost one class energies. Macaulay.

5. (Methodist Church)

Definition: One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader. Class of a curve (Math.), the kind of a curve as expressed by the number of tangents that can be drawn from any point to the curve. A circle is of the second class.

– Class meeting (Methodist Church), a meeting of a class under the charge of a class leader, for counsel and relegious instruction.

Class, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Classed; p. pr. & vb. n. Classing.] Etym: [Cf. F. classer. See Class, n.]

1. To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages.

Note: In scientific arrangement, to classify is used instead of to class. Dana.

2. To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.

Class, v. i.

Definition: To grouped or classed. The genus or famiky under which it classes. Tatham.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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