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noun

Class n.

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."

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.

6.

One session of formal instruction in which one or more teachers instruct a group on some subject. The class may be one of a course of classes, or a single special session.

7.

A high degree of elegance, in dress or behavior; the quality of bearing oneself with dignity, grace, and social adeptness.

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.

verb

Class v. t. (past & past part. classed; pres. part. classing)

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.

2.

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

Class v. i. To be grouped or classed. "The genus or family under which it classes."

adjective

Class adj. Exhibiting refinement and high character; as, a class act. Opposite of low-class (informal)

Synonyms: high-class.

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Etymology of 'Class'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Class" Quotes from Famous Books

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— The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 • Ministry of Education

... reformation were naturally anxious to learn something of the means by which so great a change had been effected. 8. A fourth cause was, that Christianity offered the blessings of salvation to men of every class; it was its most marked feature, that "to the poor the gospel was preached," and the wretch who dared not come into the pagan temple, because he had no rich offering to lay upon the altar, was ready to obey the call of him who offered pardon and love "without money ...

— Pinnock's Improved Edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome • Oliver Goldsmith

... reserved for the youngest, and the least esteemed, to successfully accomplish the adventure. In the second part of the "Envious Sisters," the girl, the youngest of the three children, plays the part of the usual hero of folk-tales of this class. There is, generally, a seemingly wretched old man—a hideous, misshapen dwarf—or an ugly, decrepit old woman—who is treated with rudeness by the two elder adventurers, so they do not speed in ...

— Supplemental Nights, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton

... place in English literature as a farmer-author. Other practical men have written practical books of permanent value, which have places of honour in the literature of the farm; but Arthur Young's writings have won friends for themselves among readers of every class, and belong more broadly to the ...

— A Tour in Ireland - 1776-1779 • Arthur Young

... attainments, and that there is still much for me to study and digest. Therefore, my friend, from you I demand aid, that I may study to some purpose, and that I may at least take position in the world and among posterity as a first-class scholar." ...

— The Youth of the Great Elector • L. Muhlbach

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