English Explanatory Dictionary

class

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
  2. 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.
  3. The division of society into classes.
  4. Admirable behavior; elegance.
  5. A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
  6. A series of lessons covering a single subject.
  7. A single lesson in a series.
  8. A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
  9. a grade, standard, level of education.
  10. A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
  11. A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
  12. Best of its kind.
verb
  1. To assign to a class; to classify.
  2. To be grouped or classed.
  3. To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
adj
  1. great; fabulous
name
  1. Abbreviation of Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor.
  2. Abbreviation of Cosmology Large Angular Scale Survey.

Pronunciation

kläs /klɑːs/ en-uk-class.ogg klăs /klæs/ /klas/ /kleəs/ en-us-class.ogg /klɑ(ː)s/ En-class.ogg

Word forms

class classes classing classed

Etymology

From Middle French classe, from Latin classis (“a class or division of the people, assembly of people, the whole body of citizens called to arms, the army, the fleet, later a class or division in general”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, shout”). Doublet of clas and classis.

Synonyms

category class description stripe fashion division family genre ilk kind likes race rubric set sort type

Related words

class action class clown class diagram class enemy class reunion class struggle class tourism touch of class binomial biosystematics brand catalog cladistics classification heading hierarchy nomenclature rank systematics taxonomy classify Taxon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia class act classless class picture classroom class up class war classy coach class steerage class

Derived words

abstract factory class Aegis class cruiser airman first class anticlass back-class best in class booking class cattle class Chern class class A classable class action class adapter pattern class adviser class-based classbook class break class-conscious class consciousness classeme class envy classer classfellow class-free classful classhood classicide class invariant classism classist classitis class-leading classlike class list classload classloader classloading class M classman classmark classmate classness class-orientation classpath class ring class secretary classtime class tourist class variable classward class warfare class warrior classwide classwise classwork classy coclass complemented class complexity class concrete class

Translations

Bulgarian: набор Catalan: classe Finnish: saapumiserä Greek: σειρά
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