class

1. (n) (countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes. 2. (n) (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. 3. (n) (uncountable) The division of society into classes. 4. (n) (education, countable and uncountable) A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher. 5. (n) A series of lessons covering a single subject. 6. (n) A single lesson in a series. 7. (n) (countable) A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class. 8. (n) (countable) A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation. 9. (n) (taxonomy, countable) A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank. 10. (n) (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. 11. (n) (uncountable) Admirable behavior; elegance. 12. (n) Best of its kind. 13. (n) (statistics) A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution. 14. (v) (transitive) To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes. 15. (v) (transitive) To assign to a class; to classify. 16. (v) (intransitive) To be grouped or classed. 17. (n) (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. 18. (n) One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader. 19. (n) (India) a grade, standard, level of education. 20. (adj) (Ireland, Geordie, slang) great; fabulous 21. (n) (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). 22. (n) (astronomy) Abbreviation of Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor. 23. (n) (astronomy) Abbreviation of Cosmology Large Angular Scale Survey.