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A school class

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    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 .

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    Noun

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    class (countable and uncountable , plural classes )

    1. (countable ) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
      The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family' class.
      That is one class-A heifer you got there, sonny.
      Often used to imply membership of a large class.
      This word has a whole class of metaphoric extensions.
      • 1954, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick, "Socrates on Trial: The Apology ", in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics), Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, →OCLC, page 21:
        So I ask you to accept my statement that my critics fall into two classes: on the one hand my immediate accusers, and on the other those earlier ones whom I have mentioned; [...]
      • 2011 October 1, Saj Chowdhury, "Wolverhampton 1-2 Newcastle", in BBC Sport:
        The Magpies are unbeaten and enjoying their best run since 1994, although few would have thought the class of 2011 would come close to emulating their ancestors.
    2. (sociology , countable ) 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.
      • 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, "Our banks are out of control", in The Guardian Weekly , volume 189, number 3, page 21:
        Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic [...].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. [...]  But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
    3. (uncountable ) The division of society into classes.
      Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.
    4. (uncountable ) Admirable behavior; elegance.
      Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class.
    5. (education , countable and uncountable ) 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.
    6. A series of lessons covering a single subject.
      I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.
    7. A single lesson in a series.
      Tomorrow's class will cover long division.
    8. (countable ) A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
      The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy.
    9. (India ) a grade, standard, level of education.
    10. (countable ) 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.
      • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 101:
        The City & South London was also the first British passenger railway to offer only one class.
    11. (taxonomy , countable ) A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
      Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida.
    12. Best of its kind.
      It is the class of Italian bottled waters.
      • 1913 June 27, "The Crime Is Not in Making a Mistake, but in Repeating It.", in Chicago Tribune:
        The mark made by Cory a new Central A. U. mark and he appears to be the class of the field in this event.
      • 1929 October 27, "89,000 Watch So. California Defeat Stanford, 7 to 0", in Chicago Tribune:
        University of Southern California's 7 to 0 defeat of the mighty Cardinal team ranked the victors the class of the far west
      • 2009 May 8, "Waianae forces OIA rematch", in Honolulu Star-Bulletin:
        Roosevelt (14-1) looked very much like the class of the OIA.
    13. (statistics ) A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.
    14. (set theory ) A collection of sets definable by a shared property, especially one which is not itself a set (in which case the class is called proper).
      The class of all sets is not a set.
      Every set is a class, but classes are not generally sets. A class that is not a set is called a proper class.
      • 1973, Abraham Fraenkel, Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, Azriel Lévy, Foundations of Set Theory, 2nd edition, Elsevier, page 119:
        In the present section we shall discuss the various systems of set theory which admit, beside sets, also classes. Classes are like sets, except that they can be very comprehensive; an extreme example of a class is the class which contains all sets.[...]The main point which will, in our opinion, emerge from this analysis is that set theory with classes and set theory with sets only are not two separate theories; they are, essentially, different formulations of the same underlying theory.
    15. (military ) A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
    16. (object-oriented programming , countable ) A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set in terms of its common properties, functions, etc.
      an abstract base class
    17. One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.

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    Translations

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    group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes — see also type,‎ sort,‎ kind
    social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc.
    division of society into classes
    admirable behavior; elegance
    group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher
    series of classes covering a single subject
    group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year
    category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation
    taxonomy: classification below Phylum and above Order
    best of its kind
    statistics: grouping of data values in an interval
    set theory: collection of sets definable by a shared property
    military: persons subject to the same draft
    object-oriented programming: set of objects possibly differing in state but not behavior
    one of the sections of a Methodist church or congregation
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    Verb

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    class (third-person singular simple present classes , present participle classing , simple past and past participle classed )

    1. (transitive ) To assign to a class; to classify.
      I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.
      • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
        She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, [...]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, [...]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
    2. (intransitive ) To be grouped or classed.
      • 1790, Edward Tatham, The Chart and Scale of Truth:
        the genus or family under which it classes
    3. (transitive ) To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.

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    to assign to a class

    Adjective

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    class (not comparable )

    1. (Ireland , Geordie , slang ) great; fabulous
      • 2009, Erik Qualman, Socialnomics:
        To talented authors Tim Ash and Brian Reich for introducing me to John Wiley & Sons—a truly class outfit.
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    Old Irish

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    Verb

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    ·class

    1. passive singular preterite conjunct of claidid

    Mutation

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    Mutation of ·class
    radical lenition nasalization
    ·class ·chlass ·class
    pronounced with /ɡ-/

    Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
    All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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