What's The Definition Of Class?
[n] education imparted in a series of lessons or class meetings; "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not unknown in college classes"
[n] (informal) elegance in dress or behavior; "she has a lot of class"
[n] a collection of things sharing a common attribute; "there are two classes of detergents"
[n] people having the same social or economic status; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class"
[n]
[n] a body of students who are taught together; "early morning classes are always sleepy"
[n] a body of students who graduate together; "the class of '97"; "she was in my year at Hoehandle High"
[n] a league ranked by quality; "he played baseball in class D for two years"; "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA"
[v] arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Class: assort |
category |
classify |
course |
course of instruction |
course of study |
division |
family |
form |
grade |
separate |
social class |
socio-economic class |
sort |
sort out |
year
Related Terms | Find terms related to Class: account |
adherents |
advantageousness |
agreeableness |
allot |
alphabetize |
analyze |
animal kingdom |
antonomasia |
appraise |
appreciate |
arrange |
ashram |
assembly |
assess |
assign |
assort |
auspiciousness |
bearing |
beneficialness |
benevolence |
benignity |
binomial nomenclature |
biosystematics |
biosystematy |
biotype |
birth |
blood |
body |
bracket |
branch |
brand |
break down |
breed |
breeding |
brethren |
brood |
caliber |
call |
caste |
catalog |
categorize |
category |
church |
churchgoers |
clan |
classification |
classify |
codify |
cogency |
colony |
color |
commonwealth |
commune |
communion |
community |
condition |
confession |
congregation |
consider |
deme |
denomination |
descent |
description |
desert |
digest |
discernment |
disciples |
distinction |
divide |
division |
domain |
echelon |
economic class |
elegance |
endogamous group |
estate |
estimate |
evaluate |
excellence |
expedience |
extended family |
extraction |
factor |
fairness |
faith |
family |
favorableness |
feather |
figure |
file |
fineness |
first-rateness |
flock |
fold |
folk |
followers |
footing |
form |
form an estimate |
gauge |
genotype |
genre |
gens |
genus |
give an appreciation |
glossology |
goodliness |
goodness |
grace |
grade |
grain |
group |
grouping |
guess |
head |
heading |
healthiness |
helpfulness |
hierarchy |
hold |
house |
identify |
ilk |
importance |
index |
ism |
judge |
kidney |
kin |
kind |
kindness |
kingdom |
kinship group |
label |
laity |
laymen |
league |
level |
line |
lineage |
list |
make an estimation |
mark |
matriclan |
measure |
merit |
minyan |
moiety |
nation |
nature |
niceness |
nomenclature |
nonclerics |
nonordained persons |
nuclear family |
onomastics |
onomatology |
order |
orismology |
parish |
parishioners |
part |
patriclan |
pedigree |
people |
persuasion |
phratria |
phratry |
phyle |
phylum |
pigeonhole |
place |
place-names |
place-naming |
plant kingdom |
pleasantness |
polyonymy |
position |
power structure |
precedence |
predicament |
presence |
prestige |
prize |
profitableness |
quality |
race |
range |
rank |
rate |
rating |
realm |
reckon |
refinement |
regard |
rewardingness |
rubric |
savoir faire |
school |
score |
sect |
section |
seculars |
separate |
sept |
series |
set |
settlement |
sheep |
sift |
skillfulness |
social class |
society |
sort |
sort out |
soundness |
species |
sphere |
stage |
stamp |
standing |
station |
status |
stem |
stirps |
stock |
strain |
stratum |
stripe |
style |
subcaste |
subclass |
subdivide |
subdivision |
subfamily |
subgenus |
subgroup |
subkingdom |
suborder |
subspecies |
subtribe |
superclass |
superfamily |
superiority |
superorder |
superspecies |
systematics |
tabulate |
taste |
taxonomy |
terminology |
thrash out |
tier |
title |
toponymy |
totem |
track |
tribe |
trinomialism |
type |
usefulness |
validity |
valuate |
value |
variety |
virtue |
virtuousness |
weigh |
wholeness |
winnow |
worth |
year
See Also | accumulation |
Acnidosporidia |
Actinopoda |
adult education |
age class |
aggregation |
Agnatha |
agriculture |
Amphibia |
Anapsida |
Arachnida |
Archaeornithes |
Archosauria |
art class |
Ascidiaceae |
assemblage |
Aves |
Bacillariophyceae |
biology class |
booboisie |
bourgeoisie |
brotherhood |
caste |
catalog |
catalogue |
categorise |
categorize |
center |
Charophyceae |
Chelicerata |
chemistry class |
childbirth-preparation class |
Chilopoda |
Chlorophyceae |
Chondrichthyes |
Chrysophyceae |
Ciliata |
Ciliophora |
class Amphibia |
class Arachnida |
class Ascidiaceae |
class Aves |
class Bacillariophyceae |
class Charophyceae |
class Chilopoda |
class Chlorophyceae |
class Chondrichthyes |
class Chrysophyceae |
class Ciliata |
class Ciliophora |
class Cryptophyceae |
class Cyanobacteria |
class Cyanophyceae |
class Cyclosporeae |
class Diatomophyceae |
class Diplopoda |
class Euglenophyceae |
class Flagellata |
class Heterokontae |
class Larvacea |
class Mammalia |
class Mastigophora |
class Myriapoda |
class Pauropoda |
class period |
class Phaeophyceae |
class Placodermi |
class Reptilia |
class Rhodophyceae |
class Sarcodina |
class Schizomycetes |
class Sporozoa |
class structure |
class Symphyla |
class Tardigrada |
class Thaliacea |
class Ulvophyceae |
class Xanthophyceae |
Cnidosporidia |
collection |
commonality |
commonalty |
commons |
compare |
conference |
conjugation |
correspondence course |
count |
course of lectures |
course session |
coursework |
craft |
Cryptophyceae |
Cyanophyceae |
Cyclosporeae |
declension |
demimonde |
denomination |
Diatomophyceae |
dichotomise |
dichotomize |
Diplopoda |
domain |
education |
educational activity |
Elasmobranchii |
elegance |
English class |
estate |
estate of the realm |
Euglenophyceae |
Eutheria |
extension course |
firing line |
first grade |
Flagellata |
fraternity |
freshman class |
gathering |
Gnathostomata |
grade |
graduating class |
grammatical category |
group |
Heterokontae |
Holocephali |
immigrant class |
Infusoria |
instruction |
isolate |
junior class |
labor |
labour |
Larvacea |
league |
lecture |
lecturing |
Lepidosauria |
lesson |
lower class |
Malacostraca |
Mammalia |
market |
Mastigophora |
Metatheria |
middle class |
Myriapoda |
number |
old school |
orientation |
orientation course |
Pantotheria |
paradigm |
Pauropoda |
peasantry |
pedagogy |
people |
Phaeophyceae |
phylum |
physics class |
Phytomastigina |
pigeonhole |
Placodermi |
proletariat |
propaedeutic |
propaedeutics |
Prototheria |
recitation |
reclassify |
refer |
refresher |
refresher course |
Reptilia |
Rhizopoda |
Rhodophyceae |
Sarcodina |
Schizomycetes |
Selachii |
seminar |
senior class |
sex |
sixth form |
size |
sodality |
sophomore class |
Sporozoa |
stamp |
stamp |
stereotype |
subclass Acnidosporidia |
subclass Actinopoda |
subclass Anapsida |
subclass Archaeornithes |
subclass Archosauria |
subclass Cnidosporidia |
subclass Elasmobranchii |
subclass Eutheria |
subclass Holocephali |
subclass Infusoria |
subclass Lepidosauria |
subclass Malacostraca |
subclass Metatheria |
subclass Pantotheria |
subclass Phytomastigina |
subclass Prototheria |
subclass Rhizopoda |
subclass Selachii |
subclass Synapsida |
subclass Telosporidia |
subclass Zoomastigina |
substitution class |
Sunday school class |
superclass Agnatha |
superclass Chelicerata |
superclass Gnathostomata |
superclass Myriapoda |
superphylum |
Symphyla |
Synapsida |
syntactic category |
Tardigrada |
taxon |
taxonomic group |
teaching |
Telosporidia |
Thaliacea |
trade |
Ulvophyceae |
underworld |
unitise |
unitize |
upper class |
upper crust |
woman |
womanhood |
working class |
workshop |
world |
Xanthophyceae |
yeomanry |
Zoomastigina
Class In Webster's Dictionary
\Class\ (kl[.a]s), n. [F. classe, fr. L. classis class,
collection, fleet; akin to Gr. klh^sis a calling, kalei^n to
call, E. claim, haul.]
1. A group of individuals ranked together as possessing
common characteristics; as, the different classes of
society; the educated class; the lower classes.
2. A number of students in a school or college, of the same
standing, or pursuing the same studies.
3. A comprehensive division of animate or inanimate objects,
grouped together on account of their common
characteristics, in any classification in natural science,
and subdivided into orders, families, tribes, genera, etc.
4. A set; a kind or description, species or variety.
She had lost one class energies. --Macaulay.
5. (Methodist Church) One of the sections into which a church
or congregation is divided, and which is under the
supervision of a class leader.
{Class of a curve} (Math.), the kind of a curve as expressed
by the number of tangents that can be drawn from any point
to the curve. A circle is of the second class.
{Class meeting} (Methodist Church), a meeting of a class
under the charge of a class leader, for counsel and
relegious instruction.
\Class\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Classed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Classing}.] [Cf. F. classer. See {Class}, n.]
1. To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class;
as, to class words or passages.
Note: In scientific arrangement, to classify is used instead
of to class. --Dana.
2. To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or
place in, a class or classes.
\Class\, v. i.
To grouped or classed.
The genus or famiky under which it classes. --Tatham.
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