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A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
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Often used to imply membership of a large class.
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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.
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The division of society into classes.
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Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.
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Admirable behavior; elegance.
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Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class.
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A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
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The class was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story.
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A series of lessons covering a single subject.
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I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.
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A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
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The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy.
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A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
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I used to fly business class, but now my company can only afford economy.
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A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
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Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida.
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Best of its kind.
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It is the class of Italian bottled waters.
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A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.
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A collection of sets definable by a shared property.
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Every set is a class, but classes are not generally sets. A class that is not a set is called a proper class.
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A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
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A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set.
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an abstract base class
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One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.