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The Meaning of class
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(n.) To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages.
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(n.) To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
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(v. i.) To grouped or classed.
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(n.) A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.
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(n.) A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.
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(n.) 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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(n.) A set; a kind or description, species or variety.
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(n.) One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader.
Synonyms
category
,
family
,
form
,
grade
,
course
,
stratum
,
social class
,
socio-economic class
,
course
,
course of study
,
course of instruction
,
division
,
year
,
classify
,
sort
,
assort
,
sort out
,
separate
Homophones
klas
,
klass
Rhymes
alas
,
alsace
,
amass
,
ass
,
bass
,
basse
,
blass
,
bluegrass
,
bras
,
brass
,
bypass
,
cas
,
casque
,
cass
,
chasse
,
contrasts
,
crass
,
depass
,
eelgrass
,
eyeglass
,
fahs
,
fass
,
fiberglas
,
fiberglass
,
forecasts
,
gas
,
gass
,
glas
,
glass
,
gras
,
grass
,
grasse
,
harass
,
hass
,
hourglass
,
impasse
,
jackass
,
jass
,
klas
,
klass
,
kras
,
krass
,
kvass
,
lambastes
,
landmass
,
lass
,
last
,
mass
,
masse
,
middle-class
,
morass
,
nass
,
outclass
,
overpass
,
pass
,
plas
,
plass
,
plasse
,
plexiglas
,
plexiglass
,
ras
,
repass
,
sas
,
sass
,
sassafras
,
sasse
,
shortgrass
,
spyglass
,
strass
,
sunglass
,
surpass
,
tallgrass
,
tass
,
tasse
,
trass
,
trespass
,
umass
,
underpass
,
vanasse
,
vass
,
wrasse
,
yass