Pronunciation
- (RP, Ireland, New England , Scotland, Northern England) enPR: kläs, IPA: /klɑːs/, /klas/, /klæs/
- (America, New York) enPR: klăs, IPA: /klæs/, /kleəs/
class
- (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.
- That is one class-A heifer you got there, sonny.
- Often used to imply membership of a large class.
- This word has a whole class of metaphoric extensions.
(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.
- Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.
- (uncountable) Admirable behavior; elegance.
- Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class.
(education, countable and 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.
- A series of lessons covering a single subject.
- I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.
- (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.
- (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.
(taxonomy, countable) A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank. - Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida.
- Best of its kind.
- It is the class of Italian bottled waters.
- (statistics) A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.
(set theory) A collection of sets definable by a shared property. - The class of all sets is not a set.
- Every set is a class, but classes are not generally sets. A class that is not a set is called a proper class.
- 1973, Abraham Fraenkel, Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, Azriel Lévy, Foundations of Set Theory, Elsevier, 2nd Edition, page 119 ↗,
- In the present section we shall discuss the various systems of set theory which admit, beside sets, also classes. Classes are like sets, except that they can be very comprehensive; an extreme example of a class is the class which contains all sets. […] The main point which will, in our opinion, emerge from this analysis is that set theory with classes and set theory with sets only are not two separate theories; they are, essentially, different formulations of the same underlying theory.
- (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.
(object-oriented, countable) A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set. - an abstract base class
- One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.
- See also Thesaurus:class
- French: classe
- German: Klasse
- Italian: ceto, classe, rango, condizione sociale
- Portuguese: classe
- Russian: класс
- Spanish: clase
- French: classe
- German: Klasse
- Italian: classe, lezione
- Portuguese: classe, aula
- Russian: класс
- Spanish: clase
class (classes, present participle classing; past and past participle classed)
- (transitive) To assign to a class; to classify.
- I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.
- (intransitive) To be grouped or classed.
- the genus or family under which it classes
- (transitive) To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
- Russian: классифици́ровать
class (not comparable)
Related termsCLASS
Proper noun
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- (astronomy) Abbreviation of cosmology#English|Cosmology large#English|Large angular#English|Angular scale#English|Scale survey#English|Survey.
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