Definitions and meaning of class
class
English
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.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, New England) enPR: kläs, IPA(key): /klɑːs/
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- (Northern England, Scotland) enPR: klăs, IPA(key): /klæs/, /klas/
- (General American, New York City) enPR: klăs, IPA(key): /klæs/, /kleəs/
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- (India) IPA(key): /klɑ(ː)s/
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- Rhymes: -ɑːs, -æs
- Hyphenation: class
Noun
class (countable and uncountable, plural classes)
- (countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
- (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.
- (uncountable) The division of society into classes.
- (uncountable) Admirable behavior; elegance.
- (education, countable and uncountable) A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
- A series of lessons covering a single subject.
- A single lesson in a series.
- (countable) A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
- (countable) A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
- (taxonomy, countable) A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
- Best of its kind.
- (statistics) A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.
- (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).
- (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.
- (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.
- One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.
Synonyms
Hyponyms
- (lesson on a single subject): preceptorial, lecture, seminar
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Descendants
- → Assamese: ক্লাছ (klas)
- → Bengali: ক্লাস (klaś), কেলাস (kelaś) — nonstandard
- → Gulf Arabic: كلاس (klās) (or from French classe)
- → Hindustani:
- Hindi: क्लास (klās)
- Urdu: کلاس
- → Japanese: クラス (kurasu)
- → Korean: 클래스 (keullaeseu)
- → Nepali: क्लास (klās)
- → Scottish Gaelic: clas
- → Thai: คลาส (kláas)
- → Yoruba: kíláàsì
Translations
Verb
class (third-person singular simple present classes, present participle classing, simple past and past participle classed)
- (transitive) To assign to a class; to classify.
- (intransitive) To be grouped or classed.
- (transitive) To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
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Adjective
class (not comparable)
- (Ireland, Geordie, slang) great; fabulous
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References
- “class”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “class”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- "class" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 60.
- “class”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- class in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
Further reading
- Von Neumann–Bernays–Gödel set theory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Old Irish
Verb
·class
- passive singular preterite conjunct of claidid
Mutation
Source: wiktionary.org