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]

Inputed by Cleo

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.'

Inputed by Cecile

Examples

Editor: Ned

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