A group of people or things sorted together because they share something — they belong to the same kind, or stand at the same level. Everything else (a class of students, a social class, first class) is one particular way of sorting people or things into such groups.
From the word’s history
From Latin 'classis', originally one of the divisions the Roman people were sorted into by wealth. The root meaning — a group people are sorted into — still sits under every modern sense, from social class to a class of students to first class.
源自拉丁文 classis，本指古羅馬依財富把人民分成的「等」之一。這個「被分出來的一堆／一等」的根義，可以想成至今仍墊在每個現代意思底下——從社會階層、班級，到頭等艙。
Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), entry 'class'
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原始詞典資料23 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
classnoun/klɑːs/
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A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
- The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family' class.
- That is one class-A heifer you got there, sonny.
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human-sciencessciencessocial-scienceA social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes: upper class, middle class and working class.
- Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
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The division of society into classes.
- Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.
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Admirable behavior; elegance.
- Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class.
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educationA group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
- The class was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story.
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A series of lessons covering a single subject.
- I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.
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A single lesson in a series.
- Tomorrow's class will cover long division.
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A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
- The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy.
- Thirty years ago there were only a few high schools for boys, and in 1957 the first university class consisted of only 50 young men.
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a grade, standard, level of education.
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A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
- I used to fly business class, but now my company can only afford economy.
- The City & South London was also the first British passenger railway to offer only one class.
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biologynatural-sciencestaxonomyA rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
- Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida.
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Best of its kind.
- It is the class of Italian bottled waters.
- The mark made by Cory a new Central A. U. mark and he appears to be the class of the field in this event.
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mathematicssciencesstatisticsA grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.
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mathematicssciencesset-theoryA collection of sets definable by a shared property, especially one which is not itself a set (in which case the class is called proper).
- The class of all sets is not a set.
- Every set is a class, but classes are not generally sets. A class that is not a set is called a proper class.
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governmentmilitarypoliticsA group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
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A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set in terms of its common properties, functions, etc.
- an abstract base class
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One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.
classverb/klɑːs/
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To assign to a class; to classify.
- I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.
- She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
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To be grouped or classed.
- the genus or family under which it classes
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To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
classadj/klɑːs/
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slanggreat; fabulous
- To talented authors Tim Ash and Brian Reich for introducing me to John Wiley & Sons—a truly class outfit.
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