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A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.

(sociology) 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.

The division of society into classes.

Admirable behavior; elegance.

(education) 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.

A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.

(India) a grade, standard, level of education.

A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.

(taxonomy) 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) 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.

To assign to a class; to classify.

To be grouped or classed.

To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.

(Ireland, Geordie, slang) Great; fabulous.