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A schoolclass

Etymology

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FromMiddle Frenchclasse, fromLatinclassis(“a class or division of the people, assembly of people, the whole body of citizens called to arms, the army, the fleet, later a class or division in general”), fromProto-Indo-European*kelh₁-(“to call, shout”).Doublet ofclas andclassis.

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Noun

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class (countable anduncountable,pluralclasses)

  1. (countable) Agroup,collection,category orset sharingcharacteristics orattributes.
    The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family'class.
    That is oneclass-A heifer you got there, sonny.
    Often used to imply membership of a largeclass.
    This word has a wholeclass of metaphoric extensions.
    • 1954,Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick, “Socrates on Trial:The Apology”, inThe Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics), Harmondsworth, Middlesex:Penguin Books,→OCLC,page21:
      So I ask you to accept my statement that my critics fall into twoclasses: on the one hand my immediate accusers, and on the other those earlier ones whom I have mentioned;[…]
    • 2011 October 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Wolverhampton 1-2 Newcastle”, inBBC Sport:
      The Magpies are unbeaten and enjoying their best run since 1994, although few would have thought theclass of 2011 would come close to emulating their ancestors.
  3. (sociology, countable) A social grouping, based onjob,wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes:upper class,middle class andworking class.
    • 2013 June 28,Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, inThe Guardian Weekly, volume189, number 3, page21:
      Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […]  But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the politicalclass now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
  4. (uncountable) Thedivision ofsociety into classes.
    Jane Austen's works deal withclass in 18th-century England.
  5. (uncountable) Admirable behavior;elegance.
    Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed realclass.
  7. (education, countable and uncountable) A group ofstudents in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
    Theclass was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story.
  8. A series of lessons covering a single subject.
    I took the cookingclass for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.
  9. A single lesson in a series.
    Tomorrow'sclass will cover long division.
  10. (countable) A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. Aschool class.
    Theclass of 1982 was particularly noteworthy.
  11. (India) agrade,standard, level of education.
  12. (countable) A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
    I used to fly businessclass, but now my company can only afford economy.
    • 2012, Andrew Martin,Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books,→ISBN, page101:
      The City & South London was also the first British passenger railway to offer only oneclass.
  14. (taxonomy, countable) Arank in the classification oforganisms, belowphylum and aboveorder; ataxon of that rank.
    Magnolias belong to theclass Magnoliopsida.
  15. Best of its kind.
    It is theclass of Italian bottled waters.
    • 1913 June 27, “The Crime Is Not in Making a Mistake, but in Repeating It.”, inChicago Tribune:
      The mark made by Cory a new Central A. U. mark and he appears to be theclass of the field in this event.
    • 1929 October 27, “89,000 Watch So. California Defeat Stanford, 7 to 0”, inChicago Tribune:
      University of Southern California's 7 to 0 defeat of the mighty Cardinal team ranked the victors theclass of the far west
    • 2009 May 8, “Waianae forces OIA rematch”, inHonolulu Star-Bulletin:
      Roosevelt (14-1) looked very much like theclass of the OIA.
  16. (statistics) A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.
  18. (set theory) A collection ofsets definable by a shared property, especially one which is not itself a set (in which case the class is calledproper).
    Theclass of all sets is not a set.
    Every set is aclass, butclasses are not generally sets. Aclass that is not a set is called a properclass.
    • 1973,Abraham Fraenkel,Yehoshua Bar-Hillel,Azriel Lévy,Foundations of Set Theory, 2nd edition, Elsevier,page119:
      In the present section we shall discuss the various systems of set theory which admit, beside sets, alsoclasses.Classes are like sets, except that they can be very comprehensive; an extreme example of aclass is theclass which contains all sets.[…]The main point which will, in our opinion, emerge from this analysis is that set theory withclasses and set theory with sets only are not two separate theories; they are, essentially, different formulations of the same underlying theory.
  19. (military) A group of people subject to beconscripted in the same militarydraft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
  21. (object-oriented programming, countable) A set ofobjects having the samebehavior (but typically differing instate),or atemplate defining such a set in terms of its commonproperties,functions, etc.
    an abstract baseclass
  22. One of the sections into which aMethodistchurch orcongregation is divided, supervised by aclass leader.

Synonyms

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Hyponyms

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programming, object-oriented: A set of objects having the same behavioror a template defining such a set

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Translations

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group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes—see alsotype,‎sort,‎kind
social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc.
division of society into classes
admirable behavior; elegance
group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher
series of classes covering a single subject
group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year
category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation
taxonomy: classification below Phylum and above Order
best of its kind
statistics: grouping of data values in an interval
set theory: collection of sets definable by a shared property
military: persons subject to the same draft
object-oriented programming: set of objects possibly differing in state but not behavior
one of the sections of a Methodist church or congregation
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Verb

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class (third-person singular simple presentclasses,present participleclassing,simple past and past participleclassed)

  1. (transitive) Toassign to a class; toclassify.
    I wouldclass this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.
    • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
      She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace,[…]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made oneclass her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
  2. (intransitive) To be grouped or classed.
    • 1790,Edward Tatham,The Chart and Scale of Truth:
      the genus or family under which itclasses
  3. (transitive) To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.

Derived terms

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Translations

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to assign to a class

Adjective

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class (notcomparable)

  1. (Ireland, Geordie, slang)great;fabulous
    • 2009, Erik Qualman,Socialnomics:
      To talented authors Tim Ash and Brian Reich for introducing me to John Wiley & Sons—a trulyclass outfit.

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Old Irish

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Verb

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·class

  1. passivesingularpreteriteconjunct ofclaidid

Mutation

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Mutation of·class
radicallenitionnasalization
·class·chlass·class
pronounced with/ɡ-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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