class

/klas/

A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.

Often used to imply membership of a large class.

A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes; upper class, middle class and working class.

The division of society into classes.

Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.

Admirable behavior; elegance.

Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class.

A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.

The class was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story.

A series of lessons covering a single subject.

I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.

A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.

The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy.

A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.

I used to fly business class, but now my company can only afford economy.

A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.

Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida.

Best of its kind.

It is the class of Italian bottled waters.

A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.

A collection of sets definable by a shared property.

Every set is a class, but classes are not generally sets. A class that is not a set is called a proper class.

A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.

A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set.

an abstract base class

One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.