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Class   /klæs/   Listen
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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"Class" Quotes from Famous Books



... which had fearlessly been intrusted to an elected magistrate are then transferred to a hereditary sovereign. This is true in general, but it is more peculiarly applicable to a democratic republic. In the United States, the magistrates are not elected by a particular class of citizens, but by the majority of the nation; they are the immediate representatives of the passions of the multitude; and as they are wholly dependent upon its pleasure, they excite neither hatred ...
— Democracy In America, Volume 1 (of 2) • Alexis de Tocqueville
... a Sunday School class of his childhood and his infantile horror for the tale of a tempter on a high mountain offering the possession of all the world if ...
— The Lighted Match • Charles Neville Buck
... in my limited space to do more than give a small selection from the class of Fairy Tales numbering several hundred; of the other classes nearly everything has been given that has been published down to the present date. The Fairy Tales were selected to represent as well as possible typical stories or classes, and I have followed in my arrangement, with some ...
— Italian Popular Tales • Thomas Frederick Crane
... duty to call every one, and as he was anxious, like the rest of his class, to get rid of his travellers as soon as possible after arrival, he rapped at each of the two closed doors behind which people presumably ...
— The Rome Express • Arthur Griffiths
... made without meat or chicken broth, and it belongs consequently to that class of soup called by the Italians "Minestra di Magro" or "lean soup," to be served preferably on Friday and other days in which the Roman Catholic Church prohibits the ...
— The Italian Cook Book - The Art of Eating Well • Maria Gentile


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