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Grammar : Adj, noun, verb
Spell : klas, klahs
Phonetic Transcription : klæs, klɑs



Definition of class

Origin :
  • c.1600, "group of students," from French classe (14c.), from Latin classis "a class, a division; army, fleet," especially "any one of the six orders into which Servius Tullius divided the Roman people for the purpose of taxation;" traditionally originally "the people of Rome under arms" (a sense attested in English from 1650s), and thus akin to calare "to call (to arms)," from PIE root *kele- (2) "to shout" (see claim (v.)). In early use in English also in Latin form classis.
  • School and university sense of "course, lecture" (1650s) is from the notion of a form or lecture reserved to scholars who had attained a certain level. Natural history sense is from 1753. Meaning "a division of society according to status" (upper, lower, etc.) is from 1772. Meaning "high quality" is from 1847. Class-consciousness (1903) is from German klassenbewusst.
  • adj stylish; with panache
  • noun kind, sort, category
  • noun societal group, background
  • noun group in school
  • verb categorize
Example sentences :
  • You can just as well get into the hundred million class as not, and I know it.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • The carriages are of two sorts—the first class, and the char-à-banc.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • Persons of every class are crowded together, here, in one dense mass.
  • Extract from : « Sunday under Three Heads » by Charles Dickens
  • Then followed some of the second class, Stevenson, Meredith, Hardy.
  • Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service
  • And to-day we have three novelists of the third class, good, capable craftsmen.
  • Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service
  • At times, also, he gave instruction to an evening class in psalmody.
  • Extract from : « Biographical Sketches » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • I believe most of this class regarded their presence as a favor granted her.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • She had just taken the class, and was so unfortunate as not to be acquainted with their names.
  • Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
  • Now, will one of you be kind enough to introduce himself and the class?
  • Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
  • A thing which Dirk hated, in common with all persons of his class.
  • Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden

Synonyms for class

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