CLASS

noun classes

1. countable A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes. The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family' class.
2. 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. Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class
3. uncountable The division of society into classes. Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.
4. uncountable Admirable behavior; elegance. Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class.
5. countable, uncountable A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher. The class was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story.
6. countable, uncountable A series of lessons covering a single subject. I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.
7. countable, uncountable A single lesson in a series. Tomorrow's class will cover long division.
8. countable A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class. The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy.
9. India, countable, uncountable a grade, standard, level of education.
10. countable A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation. I used to fly business class, but now my company can only afford economy.
11. countable A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank. Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida.
12. countable, uncountable Best of its kind. It is the class of Italian bottled waters.
13. countable, uncountable A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.
14. countable, uncountable 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). The class of all sets is not a set.
15. countable, uncountable A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
16. countable 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. an abstract base class
17. countable, uncountable One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.

Similar: category, class, description, stripe, department, fashion, division, family, genre, ilk, kind, likes

verb classes · classing · classed

1. transitive To assign to a class; to classify. I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.
2. intransitive To be grouped or classed. the genus or family under which it classes
3. transitive To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.

adjective

1. Geordie, Ireland, not comparable, slang great; fabulous To talented authors Tim Ash and Brian Reich for introducing me to John Wiley & Sons—a truly class outfit.

proper noun

1. abbreviation Abbreviation of Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor.Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor
2. abbreviation Abbreviation of Cosmology Large Angular Scale Survey.Cosmology Large Angular Scale Survey