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1. Meaning 1 · noun

   A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.

   “Often used to imply membership of a large class.”

2. Meaning 2 · noun

   A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes; upper class, middle class and working class.

3. Meaning 3 · noun

   The division of society into classes.

   “Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.”

4. Meaning 4 · noun

   Admirable behavior; elegance.

   “Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class.”

5. Meaning 5 · noun

   A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.

   “The class was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story.”

6. Meaning 6 · noun

   A series of lessons covering a single subject.

   “I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.”

7. Meaning 7 · noun

   A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.

   “The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy.”

8. Meaning 8 · noun

   A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.

   “I used to fly business class, but now my company can only afford economy.”

9. Meaning 9 · noun

   A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.

   “Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida.”

10. Meaning 10 · noun

    Best of its kind.

    “It is the class of Italian bottled waters.”

11. Meaning 11 · noun

    A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.

12. Meaning 12 · noun

    A collection of sets definable by a shared property.

    “Every set is a class, but classes are not generally sets. A class that is not a set is called a proper class.”

13. Meaning 13 · noun

    A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.

14. Meaning 14 · noun

    A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set.

    “an abstract base class”

15. Meaning 15 · noun

    One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.

16. Meaning 16 · verb

    To assign to a class; to classify.

    “I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.”

17. Meaning 17 · verb

    To be grouped or classed.

18. Meaning 18 · verb

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

19. Meaning 19 · adjective

    Great; fabulous

How this word is used

• Everyday “Often used to imply membership of a large class.”
• General “Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.”
• General “Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class.”
• General “The class was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story.”
• General “I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.”
• General “The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy.”
• General “I used to fly business class, but now my company can only afford economy.”
• General “Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida.”
• General “It is the class of Italian bottled waters.”
• General “Every set is a class, but classes are not generally sets. A class that is not a set is called a proper class.”
• General “an abstract base class”
• Everyday “I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.”

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