'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
Arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?" [syn: classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate]

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

Acronyms for 'class'

From: V.E.R.A.
  • Centralized Local Area Selective Signaling
  • Custom Local Area Signaling Service

Words containing 'CLASS'