'CLASS' definitions:
Definition of 'class'
From: WordNet
noun
A collection of things sharing a common attribute; "there are two classes of detergents" [syn: class, category, family]
noun
A body of students who are taught together; "early morning classes are always sleepy" [syn: class, form, grade, course]
noun
People having the same social, economic, or educational status; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class" [syn: class, stratum, social class, socio-economic class]
noun
Education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings; "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not unknown in college classes" [syn: course, course of study, course of instruction, class]
noun
A league ranked by quality; "he played baseball in class D for two years"; "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA" [syn: class, division]
noun
A body of students who graduate together; "the class of '97"; "she was in my year at Hoehandle High" [syn: class, year]
noun
(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
noun
Elegance in dress or behavior; "she has a lot of class"
verb
Definition of 'Class'
From: GCIDE
- Class \Class\ (kl[.a]s), n. [F. classe, fr. L. classis class, collection, fleet; akin to Gr. klh^sis a calling, kalei^n to call, E. claim, haul.]
- 1. A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A set; a kind or description, species or variety. [1913 Webster]
- She had lost one class energies. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [PJC]
- 7. A high degree of elegance, in dress or behavior; the quality of bearing oneself with dignity, grace, and social adeptness. [PJC]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Class'
From: GCIDE
- Class \Class\, v. i. To be grouped or classed. [1913 Webster]
- The genus or family under which it classes. --Tatham. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Class'
From: GCIDE
- Class \Class\ (kl[.a]s), a. exhibiting refinement and high character; as, a class act. Opposite of low-class [informal]
- Syn: high-class. [PJC]
Definition of 'Class'
From: GCIDE
- Class \Class\ (kl[.a]s), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Classed (kl[.a]st); p. pr. & vb. n. Classing.] [Cf. F. classer. See Class, n.]
- 1. To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages. [1913 Webster]
- Note: In scientific arrangement, to classify is used instead of to class. --Dana. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'class'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- account,
- adherents,
- advantageousness,
- agreeableness,
- allot,
- alphabetize,
- analyze,
- animal kingdom,
- antonomasia,
- appraise,
- appreciate,
- arrange,
- ashram,
- assembly,
- assess,
- assign,
- assort,
- auspiciousness,
- bearing,
- beneficialness,
- benevolence,
- benignity,
- binomial nomenclature,
- biosystematics,
- biosystematy,
- biotype,
- birth,
- blood,
- body,
- bracket,
- branch,
- brand,
- break down,
- breed,
- breeding,
- brethren,
- brood,
- caliber,
- call,
- caste,
- catalog,
- categorize,
- category,
- church,
- churchgoers,
- clan,
- classification,
- classify,
- codify,
- cogency,
- colony,
- color,
- commonwealth,
- commune,
- communion,
- community,
- condition,
- confession,
- congregation,
- consider,
- deme,
- denomination,
- descent,
- description,
- desert,
- digest,
- discernment,
- disciples,
- distinction,
- divide,
- division,
- domain,
- echelon,
- economic class,
- elegance,
- endogamous group,
- estate,
- estimate,
- evaluate,
- excellence,
- expedience,
- extended family,
- extraction,
- factor,
- fairness,
- faith,
- family,
- favorableness,
- feather,
- figure,
- file,
- fineness,
- first-rateness,
- flock,
- fold,
- folk,
- followers,
- footing,
- form,
- form an estimate,
- gauge,
- genotype,
- genre,
- gens,
- genus,
- give an appreciation,
- glossology,
- goodliness,
- goodness,
- grace,
- grade,
- grain,
- group,
- grouping,
- guess,
- head,
- heading,
- healthiness,
- helpfulness,
- hierarchy,
- hold,
- house,
- identify,
- ilk,
- importance,
- index,
- ism,
- judge,
- kidney,
- kin,
- kind,
- kindness,
- kingdom,
- kinship group,
- label,
- laity,
- laymen,
- league,
- level,
- line,
- lineage,
- list,
- make an estimation,
- mark,
- matriclan,
- measure,
- merit,
- minyan,
- moiety,
- nation,
- nature,
- niceness,
- nomenclature,
- nonclerics,
- nonordained persons,
- nuclear family,
- onomastics,
- onomatology,
- order,
- orismology,
- parish,
- parishioners,
- part,
- patriclan,
- pedigree,
- people,
- persuasion,
- phratria,
- phratry,
- phyle,
- phylum,
- pigeonhole,
- place,
- place-names,
- place-naming,
- plant kingdom,
- pleasantness,
- polyonymy,
- position,
- power structure,
- precedence,
- predicament,
- presence,
- prestige,
- prize,
- profitableness,
- quality,
- race,
- range,
- rank,
- rate,
- rating,
- realm,
- reckon,
- refinement,
- regard,
- rewardingness,
- rubric,
- savoir faire,
- school,
- score,
- sect,
- section,
- seculars,
- separate,
- sept,
- series,
- set,
- settlement,
- sheep,
- sift,
- skillfulness,
- social class,
- society,
- sort,
- sort out,
- soundness,
- species,
- sphere,
- stage,
- stamp,
- standing,
- station,
- status,
- stem,
- stirps,
- stock,
- strain,
- stratum,
- stripe,
- style,
- subcaste,
- subclass,
- subdivide,
- subdivision,
- subfamily,
- subgenus,
- subgroup,
- subkingdom,
- suborder,
- subspecies,
- subtribe,
- superclass,
- superfamily,
- superiority,
- superorder,
- superspecies,
- systematics,
- tabulate,
- taste,
- taxonomy,
- terminology,
- thrash out,
- tier,
- title,
- toponymy,
- totem,
- track,
- tribe,
- trinomialism,
- type,
- usefulness,
- validity,
- valuate,
- value,
- variety,
- virtue,
- virtuousness,
- weigh,
- wholeness,
- winnow,
- worth,
- year
Acronyms for 'CLASS'
From: V.E.R.A.
- Centralized Local Area Selective Signaling
- Custom Local Area Signaling Service
Words containing 'CLASS'
- Classed,
- Classes,
- Classing,
- 1st class,
- Class day,
- Class meeting,
- Class of a curve,
- Freshman class,
- Middle class,
- Working class,
- age class,
- art class,
- cabin class,
- class acrasiomycetes,
- class act,
- class actinozoa,
- class action,
- class amphibia,
- class angiospermae,
- class anthoceropsida,
- class anthozoa,
- class aphasmidia,
- class arachnida,
- class archiannelida,
- class ascidiaceae,
- class ascomycetes,
- class asteroidea,
- class aves,
- class bacillariophyceae,
- class basidiomycetes,
- class bivalvia,
- class bryopsida,
- class cephalopoda,
- class cestoda,
- class channidae,
- class charophyceae,
- class chilopoda,
- class chlorophyceae,
- class chondrichthyes,
- class chrysophyceae,
- class chytridiomycetes,
- class ciliata,
- class ciliophora,
- class coniferopsida,
- class crinoidea,
- class crustacea,
- class cryptophyceae,
- class cyanobacteria,
- class cyanophyceae,
- class cycadopsida,
- class cyclosporeae,
- class deuteromycetes,
- class diatomophyceae,
- class dicotyledonae,
- class dicotyledones,
- class diplopoda,
- class echinoidea,
- class equisetatae,
- class euglenophyceae,
- class eumycetes,
- class feeling,
- class fellow,
- class filicinae,
- class filicopsida,
- class flagellata,
- class gasteromycetes,
- class gasteropoda,
- class gastromycetes,
- class gastropoda,
- class ginkgophytina,
- class ginkgopsida,
- class gnetopsida,
- class gymnospermae,
- class hemiascomycetes,
- class hepaticae,
- class hepaticopsida,
- class heterokontae,
- class hexapoda,
- class hirudinea,
- class holothuroidea,
- class hyalospongiae,
- class hydrozoa,
- class hymenomycetes,
- class insecta,
- class lamellibranchia,
- class larvacea,
- class liliopsida,
- class list,
- class lycopodiate,
- class lycopodineae,
- class lycopsida,
- class magnoliopsida,
- class mammalia,
- class mastigophora,
- class merostomata,
- class monocotyledonae,
- class monocotyledones,
- class musci,
- class myriapoda,
- class myxomycetes,
- class nuda,
- class oligochaeta,
- class onychophora,
- class oomycetes,
- class ophiuroidea,
- class osteichthyes,
- class pauropoda,
- class pelecypoda,
- class period,
- class phaeophyceae,
- class phasmidia,
- class pinopsida,
- class placodermi,
- class plectomycetes,
- class polychaeta,
- class polyplacophora,
- class psilopsida,
- class psilotatae,
- class pteridospermopsida,
- class pyrenomycetes,
- class reptilia,
- class rhodophyceae,
- class sarcodina,
- class scaphopoda,
- class schizomycetes,
- class scyphozoa,
- class sphenopsida,
- class sporozoa,
- class structure,
- class struggle,
- class symphyla,
- class tardigrada,
- class taxopsida,
- class tentaculata,
- class thaliacea,
- class tiliomycetes,
- class trematoda,
- class turbellaria,
- class ulvophyceae,
- class war,
- class warfare,
- class xanthophyceae,
- class zygomycetes,
- economy class,
- first class,
- form class,
- fourth class,
- graduating class,
- immigrant class,
- junior class,
- leisure class,
- life class,
- low class,
- lower class,
- master class,
- ruling class,
- second class,
- senior class,
- shop class,
- social class,
- sophomore class,
- substitution class,
- third class,
- tourist class,
- upper class,
- word class,
- First-class,
- Second-class,
- class-conscious,
- high-class,
- low-class,
- lower-class,
- lower-class low-class,
- major form class,
- middle-class,
- sergeant first class,
- upper-class,
- working-class,
- world-class,
- lower-class vs middle-class vs upper-class low-class,
- 1st-class mail,
- First-class car,
- childbirth-preparation class,
- class-action suit,
- closed-class word,
- first-class mail,
- first-class scout,
- lower-middle-class,
- open-class word,
- second-class scout,
- socio-economic class,
- third-class mail,
- upper-lower-class,
- upper-middle-class,
- First-class railway carriage,
- first-class honours degree,
- propertyless wage-earning working-class blue-collar