Dictionary entries for 'class'

Synonyms

class (klăs)

[French classe, from Latin classis, class of citizens.]

noun

A set, collection, group, or configuration containing members regarded as having certain attributes or traits in common; a kind or category.
A division based on quality, rank, or grade, as:
1. A grade of mail: a package sent third class.
2. A quality of accommodation on public transport: tourist class.
1. A social stratum whose members share certain economic, social, or cultural characteristics: the lower-income classes.
2. Social rank or caste, especially high rank.
3. Informal Elegance of style, taste, and manner: an actor with class.
A level of academic development, as in an elementary or secondary school.
1. A group of students who are taught together because they have roughly the same level of academic development.
2. A group of students or alumni who have the same year of graduation.
3. A group of students who meet at a regularly scheduled time to study the same subject.
4. The period during which such a group meets: had to stay after class.
Biology A taxonomic category ranking below a phylum or division and above an order.
Statistics An interval in a frequency distribution.
Linguistics A group of words belonging to the same grammatical category that share a particular set of morphological properties, such as a set of inflections.

To arrange, group, or rate according to qualities or characteristics; assign to a class; classify.