class

Verb

• arrange or order by classes or categories
  • How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?
    

Noun

• elegance in dress or behavior
  • she has a lot of class
    

• (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders

• a body of students who graduate together
  • the class of '97
    
  • she was in my year at Hoehandle High
    

• a league ranked by quality
  • he played baseball in class D for two years
    
  • Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA
    

• education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings
  • he took a course in basket weaving
    
  • flirting is not unknown in college classes
    

• people having the same social, economic, or educational status
  • the working class
    
  • an emerging professional class
    

• a body of students who are taught together
  • early morning classes are always sleepy
    

• a collection of things sharing a common attribute
  • there are two classes of detergents
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  classify , sort , assort , sort out , separate , year , division , course , course of study , course of instruction , stratum , social class , socio-economic class , form , grade , category , family