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Class   /klæs/   Listen
Class

noun
1.
A collection of things sharing a common attribute.  Synonyms: category, family.
2.
A body of students who are taught together.  Synonyms: course, form, grade.
3.
People having the same social, economic, or educational status.  Synonyms: social class, socio-economic class, stratum.  "An emerging professional class"
4.
Education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings.  Synonyms: course, course of instruction, course of study.  "Flirting is not unknown in college classes"
5.
A league ranked by quality.  Synonym: division.  "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA"
6.
A body of students who graduate together.  Synonym: year.  "She was in my year at Hoehandle High"
7.
(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders.
8.
Elegance in dress or behavior.
verb
(past & past part. classed; pres. part. classing)
1.
Arrange or order by classes or categories.  Synonyms: assort, classify, separate, sort, sort out.



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"Class" Quotes from Famous Books



... your knowing it, he always carried a bunch o' first-class skeleton keys. I'm dead sure he was working his game all th' time. He came back for them keys, but he didn't get 'em. He's in New York somewheres. D' y' think y' could recognize him if ...
— The Voice in the Fog • Harold MacGrath

... a strictly first class investment bond, secured by a first mortgage on an old road, fully built and equipped, that has always paid its interest, and earns a dividend on its stock besides. This bond will pay you $30 every six months. No taxes, no trouble, and a safe ...
— The American Missionary -- Volume 38, No. 01, January, 1884 • Various

... I had some notion of writing a distinct story upon each class of events, but, upon more mature consideration, I thought it better to construct such a one as would enable me to work them both up into the same narrative; thus contriving that the incidents of the one house should be connected with those ...
— The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton

... not know if it is as a result of the combination of these several causes, or if under a separate head, that I should class a certain strange awe which seems to attach itself to Romanism like its shadow, differing from the coarser gloom which we have been examining, in that it can attach itself to minds of the highest purity and keenness, ...
— Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) • John Ruskin

... on paper—thought about his job and things in general. To what books could you turn? Indeed I have come to feel that in the pages of O. Henry there is more to be gleaned on the psychology of the working class than any books to be found on economic shelves. The outstanding conclusion forced upon any reader of such books as consciously attempt to give a picture of the worker and his job is that whoever wrote the ...
— Working With the Working Woman • Cornelia Stratton Parker


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