01 n. A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the …
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A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.
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A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.
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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.
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A set; a kind or description, species or variety.“She had lost one class energies.” — Macaulay.
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One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader.(Methodist Church)
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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.
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A high degree of elegance, in dress or behavior; the quality of bearing oneself with dignity, grace, and social adeptness.
Phrases & compounds
Class of a curve —
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 —
a meeting of a class under the charge of a class leader, for counsel and relegious instruction.