class
/klas//klas//kleəs/noun
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A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
Example: Often used to imply membership of a large 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.
The division of society into classes.
Example: Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.
Admirable behavior; elegance.
Example: Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class.
verb
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To assign to a class; to classify.
Example: I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.
To be grouped or classed.
To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
adjective
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Great; fabulous