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class
/klɑːs/
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What does class mean?
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.
More meanings (20)
noun
- Admirable behavior; elegance.
- A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
- A series of lessons covering a single subject.
- A single lesson in a series.
- A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
- a grade, standard, level of education.
- 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, especially one which is not itself a set (in which case the class is called proper).
- 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
- (slang) great; fabulous
proper noun
- Abbreviation of Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor.
- Abbreviation of Cosmology Large Angular Scale Survey.
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IPA pronunciation
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Not improbably, it was to this latter class of men that Mr. Dimmesdale, by many of his traits of character, naturally belonged.
The history of all past society has consisted in the development of class antagonisms, antagonisms that assumed different forms at different epochs.
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This would give me a chance to eat and lodge with the lowliest and poorest class of free citizens on equal terms.
Now here was another class, that had all they needed of the world's best and were engaged in doing work that counted.
The office of overseer takes this raw material of vulgarity and brutality, and stamps it as a distinct class of southern society.