class
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/klas/
English
Definitions
noun
- 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.”
verb
- To assign to a class; to classify.“I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.”
- To be grouped or classed.
- To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
adjective
- Great; fabulous
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Synonyms
categoryclassifyassortsortsocial classdivisionformsort outcoursegradeseparatefamilyyearcourse of instructioncourse of studysocio-economic class