A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family' class.
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.
Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
The division of society into classes.
Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.
To assign to a class; to classify.
I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.
great; fabulous
To talented authors Tim Ash and Brian Reich for introducing me to John Wiley & Sons—a truly class outfit.
Abbreviation of Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor.
Abbreviation of Cosmology Large Angular Scale Survey.
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 gene...
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To be grouped or classed.
the genus or family under which it classes
To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.