Class

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vi To grouped or classed.

II. Class ·noun A set; a kind or description, species or variety.

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

IV. Class ·noun To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages.

V. Class ·noun A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.

VI. Class ·noun One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader.

VII. Class ·noun A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.

VIII. Class ·noun A comprehensive division of animate or inanimate objects, grouped together on account of their common characteristics, in any classification in natural science, and subdivided into orders, families, tribes, genera, ·etc.

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