class
a collection of things sharing a common attribute
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,403 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 13,129 times across 175,173 chapters — 0.006% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a collection of things sharing a common attribute also: category, family there are two classes of detergents
- a body of students who are taught together also: form, grade, course early morning classes are always sleepy
- people having the same social, economic, or educational status also: stratum, social class, socio-economic class the working classan emerging professional class
- education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings also: course, course of study, course of instruction he took a course in basket weavingflirting is not unknown in college classes
- a league ranked by quality also: division he played baseball in class D for two yearsPrinceton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA
- a body of students who graduate together also: year the class of '97she was in my year at Hoehandle High
class in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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As his class poured from Huntington Hall, he saw his father waiting for him.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates furnish perhaps the best example of this class of public speaking that is available.
Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters · Abraham Lincoln · Chapter 1
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Each class would have preached the importance of those virtues, for whose exercise there was no necessity in their own lives.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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The Fearless was even prettier than its picture, and there wasn't a runabout in town in the same class with it.
The Motormaniacs · Lloyd Osbourne · Chapter 1
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The teacher may, however, follow his own judgment as to the order in which the poems should be taken up in class.
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) · O. J. [Annotator] Stevenson · Chapter 1