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Class   /klæs/   Listen
Class

noun
1.
A collection of things sharing a common attribute.  Synonyms: category, family.
2.
A body of students who are taught together.  Synonyms: course, form, grade.
3.
People having the same social, economic, or educational status.  Synonyms: social class, socio-economic class, stratum.  "An emerging professional class"
4.
Education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings.  Synonyms: course, course of instruction, course of study.  "Flirting is not unknown in college classes"
5.
A league ranked by quality.  Synonym: division.  "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA"
6.
A body of students who graduate together.  Synonym: year.  "She was in my year at Hoehandle High"
7.
(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders.
8.
Elegance in dress or behavior.
verb
(past & past part. classed; pres. part. classing)
1.
Arrange or order by classes or categories.  Synonyms: assort, classify, separate, sort, sort out.



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"Class" Quotes from Famous Books



... classic inspiration as it were in dreams, and who has painted the birth of Venus almost exactly as Poliziano imagined it. Again, we seize the broader beauties of the Venetian masters, or the vehemence of Giulio Romano's pencil. To the last class belong ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series • John Addington Symonds

... if we keep clear of Christiania, is far from being formidable; and it will require a long the to enable the merchants to attain a sufficient moneyed interest to induce them to reinforce the upper class at the expense of the yeomanry, with whom they ...
— Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark • Mary Wollstonecraft

... charge of the brigade while at Montauk, and much of his time was taken up in getting out necessary reports, and seeing to it that the entire camp was kept in first-class sanitary condition. ...
— American Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt • Edward Stratemeyer

... works in this class, there is no doubt that the Daphnephoria is the most technically complete. The procession is seen defiling along a terrace backed by trees through which the clear southern sky gleams. A youth carrying the symbolic olive bough, ...
— Frederic Lord Leighton - An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work • Ernest Rhys

... by inscriptions, as occasion demanded. Only when Roman supremacy had embraced or subjected to its influence all the countries of the Mediterranean was there need of some means by which those members of the ruling class who had gone to the provinces as officials, tax-farmers, and in other occupations, might receive the current news of the capital. It is significant that Caesar, the creator of the military monarchy and of the administrative centralization ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park


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