Synonyms for class
klæs, klɑsclass

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1. class

   A class is a number or body of persons or objects having common pursuits, purposes, attributes, or characteristics. A caste is hereditary; a class may be independent of lineage or descent; membership in a caste is supposed to be for life; membership in a class may be very transient; a religious and ceremonial sacredness attaches to the caste, as not to the class. The rich and the poor form separate classes; yet individuals are constantly passing from each to the other; the classes in a college remain the same, but their membership changes every year. We speak of rank among hereditary nobility or military officers; of various orders of the priesthood; by accommodation, we may refer in a general way to the higher ranks, the lower orders of any society. Grade implies some regular scale of valuation, and some inherent qualities for which a person or thing is placed higher or lower in the scale; as, the coarser and finer grades of wool; a man of an inferior grade. A coterie is a small company of persons of similar tastes, who meet frequently in an informal way, rather for social enjoyment than for any serious purpose. Clique has always an unfavorable meaning. A clique is always fractional, implying some greater gathering of which it is a part; the association breaks up into cliques. Persons unite in a coterie through simple liking for one another; they withdraw into a clique largely through aversion to outsiders. A set, while exclusive, is more extensive than a clique, and chiefly of persons who are united by common social station, etc. Circle is similar in meaning to set, but of wider application; we speak of scientific and religious as well as of social circles.

   Synonyms:
   association, caste, circle, clan, clique, club, company, coterie, grade, order, rank, set

   Preposition:
   A class of merchants; the senior class at (sometimes of) Harvard; the classes in college.

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1. class, category, familynoun

   a collection of things sharing a common attribute

   "there are two classes of detergents"

   Synonyms:
   kinsperson, mob, form, family unit, kinfolk, grade, division, family line, year, home, course of instruction, kinsfolk, course of study, family, social class, house, syndicate, crime syndicate, folk, socio-economic class, menage, household, fellowship, sept, kin, phratry, stratum, course, category

2. class, form, grade, coursenoun

   a body of students who are taught together

   "early morning classes are always sleepy"

   Synonyms:
   category, ground level, figure, tier, flesh, frame, stratum, mark, kind, track, chassis, social class, physical body, grad, soma, row, course of action, score, human body, division, level, socio-economic class, grade, manikin, sort, form, mannikin, mannequin, conformation, phase, course of study, family, word form, trend, path, cast, gradation, configuration, variant, degree, course, pattern, bod, year, signifier, shape, descriptor, line, course of instruction, variety, strain, anatomy, physique, contour, var., material body, manakin, build

3. class, stratum, social class, socio-economic classnoun

   people having the same social, economic, or educational status

   "the working class"; "an emerging professional class"

   Synonyms:
   social class, layer, level, grade, form, category, socio-economic class, course of instruction, course of study, division, course, stratum, year, family

4. course, course of study, course of instruction, classnoun

   education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings

   "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not unknown in college classes"

   Synonyms:
   path, form, family, program, stratum, grade, division, programme, year, course of instruction, course of study, trend, socio-economic class, syllabus, social class, line, row, track, curriculum, course of action, course, category

5. class, divisionnoun

   a league ranked by quality

   "he played baseball in class D for two years"; "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA"

   Synonyms:
   course of instruction, form, grade, division, partition, year, sectionalization, course, part, section, naval division, course of study, family, air division, social class, partitioning, socio-economic class, sectionalisation, segmentation, variance, stratum, category

6. class, yearnoun

   a body of students who graduate together

   "the class of '97"; "she was in my year at Hoehandle High"

   Synonyms:
   social class, grade, form, category, yr, twelvemonth, socio-economic class, course of instruction, course of study, division, course, stratum, year, family

7. classnoun

   (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders

   Synonyms:
   social class, grade, form, category, socio-economic class, course of instruction, course of study, division, course, stratum, year, family

8. classverb

   elegance in dress or behavior

   "she has a lot of class"

   Synonyms:
   social class, grade, form, category, socio-economic class, course of instruction, course of study, division, course, stratum, year, family

9. classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separateverb

   arrange or order by classes or categories

   "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"

   Synonyms:
   tell apart, distinguish, classify, associate, single out, split up, shed light on, crystalise, differentiate, sieve, divide, crystalize, fall apart, part, crystallise, carve up, sort, severalize, consort, split, come apart, separate, correct, severalise, dissever, furcate, assort, affiliate, illuminate, clear, discriminate, discipline, branch, secern, screen out, elucidate, screen, crystallize, clear up, enlighten, relegate, disunite, straighten out, tell, break, sort out, ramify, fork, break up, secernate

Matched Categories

1. • Biology
   • Education
   • Gathering
   • Taxonomic Group

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1. homework

   "we were given many homework assignments"

   Submitted by rinat on August 20, 2019  

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1. classnoun

   Synonyms:
   rank or order (of persons)

2. classnoun

   Synonyms:
   set (as of pupils pursuing the same studies)

3. classnoun

   Synonyms:
   scientific division (of animate or inanimate objects, including orders, genera, and species), kind, sort

4. classnoun

   Synonyms:
   category, predicament

5. classverb

   Synonyms:
   arrange, rank, range, classify, dispose, distribute, form into classes

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1. classnoun

   Synonyms:
   rank, order, category, species, variety

2. classverb

   Synonyms:
   classify, dispose, categorize

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1. List of paraphrases for "class":

   category, classroom, classes, grade, classe, classy, classifies, categories, kind, klass, klasse, level, type, course, class2, strata, classrooms, kinds, courses, school, sort, sorts, homeroom, categorizes, catégorie

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1. CLASS

   Synonyms:
   Neurology CLomethiazole Acute Stroke Study Rheumatology Celecoxib/Celebrex Long-term Arthritis Safety Study

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How to use class in a sentence?

1. Joost Heymeijer:

   We change our menus every month, so annually there are 7,000 different menu items, we have 254 different soups in first class alone.

2. Sheriff Mike Lewis:

   Deputy First Class Glenn Hilliard was... married with three beautiful children.

3. Bernie Sanders:

   That is absolutely not true, my plan says that every kid in America ... you are going to be able to make it into the middle class, you are going to be able to get a college education, regardless of the income of your family.

4. Kshama Sawant:

   We will no longer tolerate a system that buries poor and working class people in taxes, while giving big business and the super-rich yet another free ride; a system that underfunds affordable housing to the point where thousands are homeless, a system that criminally underfunds education.

5. James Madison:

   The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy. They are more: they are the best basis of public liberty, and the strongest bulwark of public safety. It follows, that the greater the proportion of this class to the whole society, the more free, the more independent, and the more happy must be the society itself.