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[ klas, klahs ]
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noun
a number of persons or things regarded as forming a group by reason of common attributes, characteristics, qualities, or traits; kind; sort: a class of objects used in daily living.
a group of students meeting regularly to study a subject under the guidance of a teacher: The class had arrived on time for the lecture.
the period during which a group of students meets for instruction.
a meeting of a group of students for instruction.
a number of pupils in a school, or of students in a college, pursuing the same studies, ranked together, or graduated in the same year: She graduated from Ohio State, class of ’72.
a social stratum sharing basic economic, political, or cultural characteristics, and having the same social position: Artisans form a distinct class in some societies.
the system of dividing society; caste.
social rank, especially high rank.
the members of a given group in society, regarded as a single entity.
any division of persons or things according to rank or grade: Hotels were listed by class, with the most luxurious ones listed first.
excellence; exceptional merit: She’s a good performer, but she lacks class.
Hinduism. any of the four social divisions, the Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaisya, and Shudra, of Hindu society; varna.Compare caste (def. 2).
Informal. elegance, grace, or dignity, as in dress and behavior: He may be a slob, but his brother has real class.
any of several grades of accommodations available on ships, airplanes, and the like: We bought tickets for first class.
Informal. the best or among the best of its kind: This new plane is the class of the wide-bodied airliners.
Biology. the usual major subdivision of a phylum or division in the classification of organisms, usually consisting of several orders.
British University. any of three groups into which candidates for honors degrees are divided according to merit on the basis of final examinations.
drafted or conscripted soldiers, or persons available for draft or conscription, all of whom were born in the same year.
(in early Methodism) one of several small companies, each composed of about 12 members under a leader, into which each society or congregation was divided.
Statistics. a group of measurements that fall within a specified interval.
Mathematics. a set; a collection.
the classes, the higher ranks of society, as distinguished from the masses.
adjective
Informal. of high quality, integrity, status, or style: class players on a mediocre team.
verb (used with object)
to place or arrange in a class; classify: to class justice with wisdom.
verb (used without object)
to take or have a place in a particular class: those who class as believers.
Verb Phrases
class up, Informal. to improve the quality, tone, or status of; add elegance, dignity, style, etc., to: The new carpet and curtains really class up this room.
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Origin of class
First recorded in 1590–1600; earlier classis, plural classes, from Latin: “class, division, fleet, army”; singular class back formation from plural
grammar notes for class
OTHER WORDS FROM class
class·a·ble, adjectiveclasser, nounmis·class, verbre·class, verb (used with object)
un·class·a·ble, adjectiveun·classed, adjectivewell-classed, adjective
Words nearby class
clasp, clasper, claspers, clasping, clasp knife, class, class-A amplifier, class act, class action, class action law suit, class A drug
Other definitions for class (2 of 2)
abbreviation
classic.
classical.
classification.
classified.
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Words related to class
collection, degree, department, division, family, grade, league, rank, school, style, circle, club, company, place, position, course, room, seminar, session, study
How to use class in a sentence
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A Senate report published Wednesday claimed that policy delayed 7 percent of the country’s first-class mail in the five weeks after it took effect.
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His diction, that booming voice, his intensity, are in a class by themselves.
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The researchers found that there was no difference in outcomes between the three kinds of classes.
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We could go to classes remotely from our homes or from our dorm rooms.
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With only eight students left, leadership at Lincoln High decided to cancel the class after the first quarter, as Scott Lewis reports in a new story on Williams’ ordeal.
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I was drawn to The Class for different reasons—chiefly, the pipe dream of achieving a tighter and tauter backside.
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Stephanie Giorgio, a classical musician, credits The Class for helping her cope with anxiety, focus, fear, and self-doubt.
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In the last year, her fusion exercise class has attracted a cult following and become de rigueur among the celebrity set.
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The same picture emerges from middle class men in the U.S., Canada, and the Nordic countries.
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More to the point, Huckabee has a natural appeal to a party that has come to represent the bulk of working class white voters.
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Botanists have enumerated between forty and fifty varieties of the tobacco plant who class them all among the narcotic poisons.
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Our class has swelled to about a dozen persons now, and a good many others come and play to him once or twice and then go.
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It has only been a rare and exceptional class hitherto that has gone on learning throughout life.
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But we must not class in this unclean category Lord Spunyarn and his friend Haggard, who were both playing at the big table.
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The universal ignorance of the working class broke down the aspiring force of genius.
British Dictionary definitions for class
noun
a collection or division of people or things sharing a common characteristic, attribute, quality, or property
a group of persons sharing a similar social position and certain economic, political, and cultural characteristics
(in Marxist theory) a group of persons sharing the same relationship to the means of production
- the pattern of divisions that exist within a society on the basis of rank, economic status, etc
- (as modifier)the class struggle; class distinctions
- a group of pupils or students who are taught and study together
- a meeting of a group of students for tuition
mainly US a group of students who graduated in a specified yearthe class of ’53
(in combination and as modifier) British a grade of attainment in a university honours degreesecond-class honours
- informal excellence or elegance, esp in dress, design, or behaviourthat girl’s got class
- (as modifier)a class act
- outstanding speed and stamina in a racehorse
- (as modifier)the class horse in the race
biology any of the taxonomic groups into which a phylum is divided and which contains one or more orders. Amphibia, Reptilia, and Mammalia are three classes of phylum Chordata
maths logic
- another name for set 2 (def. 3)
- proper class a class which cannot itself be a member of other classes
in a class of its own or in a class by oneself unequalled; unparalleled
verb
to have or assign a place within a group, grade, or class
Derived forms of class
classable, adjectiveclasser, noun
Word Origin for class
C17: from Latin classis class, rank, fleet; related to Latin calāre to summon
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Scientific definitions for class
A taxonomic category of organisms ranking above an order and below a phylum or division. In modern taxonomic schemes, the names of classes end in -phyceae for the various groups of algae, -mycetes for fungi, and -opsida for plants (as in Liliopsida, the class of plants also termed monocotyledons). The names of classes belonging to phyla of the animal kingdom, however, are formed in various ways, as Osteichthyes the bony fishes, Aves, the birds, and Mammalia, the mammals, all of which are classes belonging to the subphylum Vertebrata (the vertebrates) in the phylum Chordata. See Table at taxonomy.
The American Heritage® Science Dictionary
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Cultural definitions for class (1 of 2)
A group of people sharing the same social, economic, or occupational status. The term class usually implies a social and economic hierarchy, in which those of higher class standing have greater status, privilege, prestige, and authority. Western societies have traditionally been divided into three classes: the upper or leisure class, the middle class (bourgeoisie), and the lower or working class. For Marxists, the significant classes are the bourgeoisie and the proletariat (see also proletariat).
Cultural definitions for class (2 of 2)
notes for class
Mammals, reptiles, and insects are classes.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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Other Idioms and Phrases with class
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Noun
There are 20 students in the class.
Several people in the class are absent today.
This class is really difficult.
He will be teaching an American history class next semester.
The college offers classes in computer programming and engineering.
She is taking a class on psychology.
What classes are you taking this semester?
I have an English class this morning.
My class got out early today.
I have already missed two classes.
Verb
I would class that suggestion as helpful, so let’s make a note of it.
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The class is from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Sunday and tickets are free for members, $7 for children and $10 for adults.
—Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2023
Once the student left, Crespo told the rest of the class to notify her if a peer seemed upset.
—Meg Bernhard, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2023
Wildman’s class unanimously approved the standards, which have since been adopted by the entire Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences.
—Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
Nappa leather covers the dash, door panels, and seats, while real wood trim with a handsome pinstripe adds a touch of class.
—Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 4 Apr. 2023
Other classes use an American-heritage reader, which is dominated by white voices.
—Emma Green, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
Each class had an American flag.
—Keith Sharon, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2023
On many days, Duran is coach Matt Ellett’s de facto alarm clock, with Duran sending Ellett texts wanting to get into the school to take swings before classes even begin.
—Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2023
Pete Milne, managing director of global recruiters Robert Walters’ American division, explains that lying on a CV is actually classed as fraud.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2023
The 14 states challenging the EPA’s authority argued that EPA had relied on unsound climate science in classing greenhouse gases as pollutants.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2012
My career has been about taking genres that might be considered a little lower class and trying to class them up a little bit: The Shield in the police world, Terriers in the private detective world; and Timeless in the time travel world.
—Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2023
Kering does not disclose individual results for Balenciaga, classing it with a handful of other brands, which collectively experienced a four-per-cent drop in revenues in the fourth quarter.
—Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
Orange County students can stop wearing face masks to class on Monday, if their parents provide a note opting them out, Superintendent Barbara Jenkins said in a recorded message to families late Thursday afternoon.
—Leslie Postal, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Oct. 2021
Want to class up your haunted house fun?
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His band teacher brought several instruments to class that day: trombone, trumpet, clarinet, tuba, flute.
—Khari Nixon, SPIN, 20 Feb. 2023
The boy was in a care plan at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Va., that included his mother and father accompanying the student to class daily, the family said in a statement released Thursday by their lawyer.
—Joseph De Avila, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2023
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- word class
- [‘wɜːdklɑːs]
1) Общая лексика: часть речи
2) Лингвистика: разряд слов
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word class — word classes N COUNT A word class is a group of words that have the same basic behaviour, for example nouns, adjectives, or verbs … English dictionary
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word class — word′ class n. gram. a group of words all of which are members of the same form class or part of speech • Etymology: 1920–25 … From formal English to slang
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word class — noun one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context (Freq. 3) • Syn: ↑part of speech, ↑form class • Hypernyms: ↑grammatical category, ↑syntactic category • Hyponyms … Useful english dictionary
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word class — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms word class : singular word class plural word classes linguistics a part of speech … English dictionary
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word class — noun Date: 1914 a linguistic form class whose members are words; especially part of speech … New Collegiate Dictionary
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word class — Gram. a group of words all of which are members of the same form class or part of speech. [1920 25] * * * … Universalium
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word class — noun a category of words of similar form or function; a part of speech … English new terms dictionary
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Word order — Linguistic typology Morphological Isolating Synthetic Polysynthetic Fusional Agglutinative Morphosyntactic Alig … Wikipedia
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class-conscious — adjective (used of society) socially hierarchical American society is becoming increasingly stratified • Syn: ↑stratified • Similar to: ↑hierarchical, ↑hierarchal, ↑hierarchic * * * ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ adjecti … Useful english dictionary
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Class (set theory) — In set theory and its applications throughout mathematics, a class is a collection of sets (or sometimes other mathematical objects) which can be unambiguously defined by a property that all its members share. The precise definition of class… … Wikipedia
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class-conscious — UK / US adjective influenced by a strong feeling of belonging to a particular social class and noticing differences between the classes Derived word: class consciousness noun uncountable … English dictionary
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class
noun
1. A division based on quality, rank, or grade, as:.
2. A grade of mail: a package sent third class.
3. A group of students or alumni who have the same year of graduation.
4. A group of students who are taught together because they have roughly the same level of academic development.
5. A group of students who meet at a regularly scheduled time to study the same subject.
verb-transitive
1. To arrange, group, or rate according to qualities or characteristics; assign to a class; classify.
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word
n
1 one of the units of speech or writing that native speakers of a language usually regard as the smallest isolable meaningful element of the language, although linguists would analyse these further into morphemes
Related adj →
lexical →
verbal
2 an instance of vocal intercourse; chat, talk, or discussion
to have a word with someone
3 an utterance or expression, esp. a brief one
a word of greeting
4 news or information
he sent word that he would be late
5 a verbal signal for action; command
when I give the word, fire!
6 an undertaking or promise
I give you my word, he kept his word
7 an autocratic decree or utterance; order
his word must be obeyed
8 a watchword or slogan, as of a political party
the word now is «freedom»
9 (Computing) a set of bits used to store, transmit, or operate upon an item of information in a computer, such as a program instruction
10 ♦
as good as one’s word doing what one has undertaken or promised to do
12 ♦
by word of mouth orally rather than by written means
13 ♦
in a word briefly or in short
a an exclamation of surprise, annoyance, etc.
b (Austral) an exclamation of agreement
15 ♦
of one’s word given to or noted for keeping one’s promises
I am a man of my word
16 ♦
put in a word or good word for to make favourable mention of (someone); recommend
17 ♦
take someone at his or her word to assume that someone means, or will do, what he or she says
when he told her to go, she took him at his word and left
18 ♦
take someone’s word for it to accept or believe what someone says
a the closing remark of a conversation or argument, esp. a remark that supposedly settles an issue
b the latest or most fashionable design, make, or model
the last word in bikinis
c the finest example (of some quality, condition, etc.)
the last word in luxury
20 ♦
the word the proper or most fitting expression
cold is not the word for it, it’s freezing!
b an exclamation of surprise, annoyance, etc.
a (of a report, transcription, etc.) using exactly the same words as those employed in the situation being reported; verbatim
b translated by substituting each word in the new text for each corresponding word in the original rather than by general sense
23 ♦
word of honour a promise; oath
24 modifier of, relating to, or consisting of words
a word list
vb
25 tr to state in words, usually specially selected ones; phrase
26 tr; often foll by: up (Austral)
informal to inform or advise (a person), (See also)
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words
(Old English word; related to Old High German wort, Old Norse orth, Gothic waurd, Latin verbum, Sanskrit vratá command)
boo-word
n any word that seems to cause irrational fear
«communism» became a boo-word in the McCarthy era
buzz word
n
Informal a word, often originating in a particular jargon, that becomes a vogue word in the community as a whole or among a particular group
content word
n a word to which an independent meaning can be given by reference to a world outside any sentence in which the word may occur
Compare →
function word →
lexical meaning
four-letter word
n any of several short English words referring to sex or excrement: often used as swearwords and regarded generally as offensive or obscene
function word
n (Grammar) a word, such as the, with a particular grammatical role but little identifiable meaning
Compare →
content word →
grammatical meaning
f-word
n
♦
the. sometimes cap a euphemistic way of referring to the word →
fuck
(from f(uck) + word)
ghost word
n a word that has entered the language through the perpetuation, in dictionaries, etc., of an error
loan word
n a word adopted, often with some modification of its form, from one language into another
nonce word
n a word coined for a single occasion
portmanteau word
n another name for →
blend →
7
(C19: from the idea that two meanings are packed into one word)
reserved word
n a word in a programming language or computer system that has a fixed meaning and therefore cannot be redefined by a programmer
Word
n
♦
the
1 (Christianity) the 2nd person of the Trinity
2 Scripture, the Bible, or the Gospels as embodying or representing divine revelation, (Often called)
the Word of God
(translation of Greek logos, as in John 1:1)
-word
n combining form preceded by the and an initial letter a euphemistic way of referring to a word by its first letter because it is considered to be in some way unmentionable by the user
the C-word, meaning cancer
word association
n an early method of psychoanalysis in which the patient thinks of the first word that comes into consciousness on hearing a given word. In this way it was claimed that aspects of the unconscious could be revealed before defence mechanisms intervene
word blindness
n the nontechnical name for alexia and dyslexia
♦
word-blind adj
word class
n (Linguistics) a form class in which the members are words
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part of speech
word deafness
n loss of ability to understand spoken words, esp. as the result of a cerebral lesion, (Also called)
auditory aphasia
♦
word-deaf adj
word game
n any game involving the formation, discovery, or alteration of a word or words
word order
n the arrangement of words in a phrase, clause, or sentence. In many languages, including English, word order plays an important part in determining meanings expressed in other languages by inflections
word-perfect , (U.S.) letter-perfect
adj
1 correct in every detail
2 (of a speech, part in a play, etc.) memorized perfectly
3 (of a speaker, actor, etc.) knowing one’s speech, role, etc., perfectly
word picture
n a verbal description, esp. a vivid one
word processing
n the composition of documents using a computer system to input, edit, store, and print them
word processor
n
a a computer program that performs word processing
b a computer system designed for word processing
word square
n a puzzle in which the player must fill a square grid with words that read the same across as down
word stress
n the stress accent on the syllables of individual words either in a sentence or in isolation
word wrapping
n (Computing) the automatic shifting of a word at the end of a line to a new line in order to keep within preset margins