Class
[klɑːs] or [klæs]
Definition
(noun.) elegance in dress or behavior; 'she has a lot of class'.
(noun.) people having the same social, economic, or educational status; 'the working class'; 'an emerging professional class'.
(noun.) a collection of things sharing a common attribute; 'there are two classes of detergents'.
(noun.) (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders.
(noun.) a body of students who are taught together; 'early morning classes are always sleepy'.
(noun.) a body of students who graduate together; 'the class of '97'; 'she was in my year at Hoehandle High'.
(noun.) a league ranked by quality; 'he played baseball in class D for two years'; 'Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA'.
Edited by Helen--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.
(n.) A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A set; a kind or description, species or variety.
(n.) One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader.
(n.) To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages.
(n.) To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
(v. i.) To grouped or classed.
Typist: Shirley
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Rank or order (of persons).[2]. Set (as of pupils pursuing the same studies).[3]. Scientific division (of animate or inanimate objects, including orders, genera, and species), kind, sort.[4]. Category, predicament.
v. a. Arrange, rank, range, classify, dispose, distribute, form into classes.
Checker: Pamela
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ORDER]
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Definition
n. a rank or order of persons or things: high rank or social standing: a number of students or scholars who are taught together: a scientific division or arrangement: the position in order of merit of students after examination.—v.t. to form into a class or classes: to arrange methodically.—v.i. to take rank.—adjs. Class′able Class′ible capable of being classed.—ns. Class′-fell′ow Class′-mate a pupil in the same class at school or college; Class′ic any great writer or work: a student of the ancient classics: a standard work: (pl.) Greek Roman and modern writers of the first rank or their works.—adjs. Class′ic -al of the highest class or rank esp. in literature: originally and chiefly used of the best Greek and Roman writers: (as opposed to Romantic) like in style to the authors of Greece and Rome: chaste refined in keeping with classical art: famous for literary or historical reasons.—ns. Classical′ity Class′icalness the quality of being classical.—adv. Class′ically.—ns. Class′icism a classical idiom; Class′icist one versed in the classics or devoted to their being retained in education; Class′-lead′er the leader of a class in a Methodist church; Class′man one who has gained honours of a certain class at the Oxford examinations—opp. to Passman.—Classic races the five chief annual horse-races—the Two Thousand One Thousand Derby Oaks and St Leger.—Take a class to take honours in an examination as opposed to the mere 'pass.'
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Examples
- He once said that he was educated in a university where all the students belonged to families of the aristocracy; and the highest class in the university all wore little red caps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This was a class of plant which the inquirers desired to purchase outright and operate themselves, usually because of remoteness from any possible source of general supply of current. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Daguerreotypy, while the father of them all, is now hardly practised as Daguerre practised it, and has become a small subordinate sub-division of the great class. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- They teach at one time that men act from class interests: but they devote an enormous amount of energy to making men conscious of their class. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The proprietors and cultivators finally pay both the wages of all the workmen of the unproductive class, and the profits of all their employers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Westminster Hall itself is a shady solitude where nightingales might sing, and a tenderer class of suitors than is usually found there, walk. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Humphrey expressed his sorrow at Clym's condition, and added, Now, if yours was low-class work like mine, you could go on with it just the same. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Landlords and farmers, besides, two of the largest classes of masters, have another reason for being pleased with dear years. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The meal over, prayers were read by Miss Miller, and the classes filed off, two and two, upstairs. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- They are divided into classes by names indicating their purpose and mode of operation, such as single, double-acting, lift or force, reciprocating or rotary, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The novel feature of Plato's pedagogy was the plan to educate the directing classes, men disciplined in his own philosophical and ethical conceptions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- What is called Fabian Socialism, the exposition of socialism by the London Fabian Society, makes its appeal to reasonable men of all classes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They are divided into two great classes, single and double acting engines, accordingly as the water is admitted to one side of the piston only, or to both sides alternately. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The ignorant distrust of opium (in England) is by no means confined to the lower and less cultivated classes. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Its members were classed in the following committees: 1. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It is difficult to conceive that a capital should be employed in any way which may not be classed under some one or other of those four. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- As a sample story of adventure, Mr. McGowan's narrative is a marvel fit to be classed with the historic journeyings of the greatest travellers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There were but few who could be so classed; and it was not all of them that were attainable. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- In this sense, therefore, inventions should be classed as labour-_increasing_ devices. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Homoplastic structures are the same with those which I have classed, though in a very imperfect manner, as analogous modifications or resemblances. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Although it cannot now be classed as a novelty, yet it still creates a great sensation whenever and wherever it is exhibited. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- She caught herself up at this with a miserable tremor; here was she classing his low opinion of her alongside with the displeasure of God. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
Editor: Ned