class
A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
Noun 4 meanings
A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
“The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family' 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 3 meanings
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.
Etymology
From Middle French classe, from Latin classis (“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”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, shout”). Doublet of clas and classis. Displaced Old English ġecynd.
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CLASS at a glance
CLASS has 5 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (C 3 + L 1 + A 1 + S 1 + S 1) and 9 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #406 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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