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Class

Class Definition And Meaning
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 \| 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\| 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.

Class Definition And Meaning

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?"

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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