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class noun (classes) 1 a lesson or lecture. 2 a number of pupils taught together. 3 especially US the body of students that begin or finish university or school in the same year • class of '94. 4 a category, kind or type, members of which share common characteristics. 5 a grade or standard. 6 any of the social groupings into which people fall according to their job, wealth, etc. 7 the system by which society is divided into such groups. 8 colloq a stylishness in dress, behaviour, etc; b good quality. 9 biol in taxonomy: any of the groups, eg Mammalia (the mammals), into which a phylum in the animal kingdom or a division (sense 7) in the plant kingdom is divided, and which is in turn subdivided into one or more orders (sense 11). verb (classes, classed, classing) a to regard someone or something as belonging to a certain class; b to put into a category. in a class of its own outstanding; with no equal.
ETYMOLOGY: 17c: from Latin classis rank, class, division.

class noun (classes) 1 a lesson or lecture. 2 a number of pupils taught together. 3 especially US the body of students that begin or finish university or school in the same year • class of '94. 4 a category, kind or type, members of which share common characteristics. 5 a grade or standard. 6 any of the social groupings into which people fall according to their job, wealth, etc. 7 the system by which society is divided into such groups. 8 colloq a stylishness in dress, behaviour, etc; b good quality. 9 biol in taxonomy: any of the groups, eg Mammalia (the mammals), into which a phylum in the animal kingdom or a division (sense 7) in the plant kingdom is divided, and which is in turn subdivided into one or more orders (sense 11). verb (classes, classed, classing) a to regard someone or something as belonging to a certain class; b to put into a category. in a class of its own outstanding; with no equal.
ETYMOLOGY: 17c: from Latin classis rank, class, division.

class noun (classes) 1 a lesson or lecture. 2 a number of pupils taught together. 3 especially US the body of students that begin or finish university or school in the same year • class of '94. 4 a category, kind or type, members of which share common characteristics. 5 a grade or standard. 6 any of the social groupings into which people fall according to their job, wealth, etc. 7 the system by which society is divided into such groups. 8 colloq a stylishness in dress, behaviour, etc; b good quality. 9 biol in taxonomy: any of the groups, eg Mammalia (the mammals), into which a phylum in the animal kingdom or a division (sense 7) in the plant kingdom is divided, and which is in turn subdivided into one or more orders (sense 11). verb (classes, classed, classing) a to regard someone or something as belonging to a certain class; b to put into a category. in a class of its own outstanding; with no equal.
ETYMOLOGY: 17c: from Latin classis rank, class, division.