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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



... 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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