classes

noun

(countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.

(sociology, 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.

(uncountable) The division of society into classes.

(education, countable and uncountable) 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.

(countable) A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.

(countable) A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.

(taxonomy, countable) A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.

(object-oriented programming, 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.

(uncountable) Admirable behavior; elegance.

Best of its kind.

(statistics) A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.

(military) A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.

One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.

(India) a grade, standard, level of education.

(set theory) 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).

(astronomy) Abbreviation of Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor.

(astronomy) Abbreviation of Cosmology Large Angular Scale Survey.

verb

(transitive) To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.

(transitive) To assign to a class; to classify.

(intransitive) To be grouped or classed.

adjective

(Ireland, Geordie, slang) great; fabulous

Roots

classisclass- · Latin · class, division

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