class

Main Entry:: ¹class
Pronunciation:: \ˈklas\
Function:: noun
Usage:: often attributive
Etymology:: French classe, from Latin classis group called to military service, fleet, class; perhaps akin to Latin calare to call — more at low
Date:: 1602

1 a: a body of students meeting regularly to study the same subject b: the period during which such a body meets c: a course of instruction d: a body of students or alumni whose year of graduation is the same2 a: a group sharing the same economic or social status <the working class> b: social rank ; especially : high social rank c: high quality : elegance <a hotel with class>3: a group, set, or kind sharing common attributes: as a: a major category in biological taxonomy ranking above the order and below the phylum or division b: a collection of adjacent and discrete or continuous values of a random variable c: set 21 4: a division or rating based on grade or quality5: the best of its kind <the class of the league>6: a data type in object-oriented programming that consists of a group of objects with the same properties and behaviors and that is arranged in a hierarchy with other such data types — compare object

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