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noun A set, collection, group, or configuration containing members regarded as having certain attributes or traits in common; a kind or category.
noun A division based on quality, rank, or grade, as:
noun A grade of mail: a package sent third class.

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In anc. hist., one of the five divisions of the Roman citizens made, according to their wealth, by Servius Tullius, for purposes of taxation: a sixth division comprised those whose possessions fell below the minimum of the census.
An order or rank of persons; a number of persons having certain characteristics in common, as equality in rank, intellectual influence, education, property, occupation, habits of life, etc. We are by our occupations, education, and habits of life divided almost into different species. Each of these classes of the human race has desires, fears, and conversation, vexations and merriment peculiar to itself. Johnson. Nine tenths of the whole people belong to the laborious, industrious, and productive classes. D. Webster, Speech, Pittsburg, July, 1833. The constitution of the House of Commons tended greatly to promote the salutary intermixture of classes. The knight of the shire was the connecting link between the baron and the shopkeeper. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., i.
Any body of persons grouped together by particular circumstances or for particular reasons. Specifically— A number of pupils in a school, or of students in a college, of the same grade or pursuing the same studies; especially, in American colleges, the students collectively who are graduated, or in accordance with the rules of the college will be graduated, in the same year. There are four college classes, the freshman or lowest, the sophomore, the junior, and the senior. The word was first used in this sense in American colleges in the Latin form classis, and was borrowed from the universities of continental Europe, where it had during the sixteenth century replaced the medieval lectio. In the Meth. Ch., one of several small companies, usually numbering about twelve members, into which each society is divided, for more effective pastoral oversight, social meeting for religious purposes, and the raising of money for church work. It ordinarily holds a weekly session called a classmeeting, under the charge of one of the members called a class-leader, whose duty it is to see every member of his class at least once a week; to give religious instruction, reproof, or comfort, as needed; to receive for the stewards of the church the contributions of the class for the support of the church; to report to the pastor any members needing especial attention, as the sick, backsliders, etc.; and to report on the condition of his class to each Quarterly Conference. Same as classis, 2. In several European states, one of the graded divisions of primary electors for members of the legislative body. In Prussia the whole number of voters is divided into three classes, so arranged that each class pays one third of the direct tax levied. The first class is of the few wealthy, who pay the highest taxes, to the amount of one third of the whole. Each class chooses the same number of secondary electors, who elect the deputies.

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To don a Potts Shoe was to display the honor badge of lower-income America; and since this class was the largest class, the Potts fortune was not merely terrestrial —it was galactic But your curious reference," said the great man eagerly, turning back to the lawyer, "to 'when she leaves the Shoe.' — PARTONE
The experience of this class is a unique opportunity to blend the close supervision of the classroom with the hands-on experience of an internship, argues Leslie Kendrick, the professor for the class. — News-Letter
While the class is an intro-level class, Larsen said anyone could benefit from it, whether they've had lots of dance training or very little. — The Argonaut
And in English class, they learned a new phrase today. — NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
This class was a remote class, taught from Carnegie Mellon. — Planet Geek

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French classe, from Latin classis, class of citizens; see kelə-² in Indo-European roots.

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= Dutch klas, klasse = German classe = Danish klasse = Swedish klass, from French classe = Spanish clase = Portuguese Italian classe, from Latin classis, a class or division of the people, assembly of people, the whole body of citizens called to arms, the army, the fleet, later a class or division in general, Old Latin clāsis, = (perhaps from ) Greek κλῆσις, a calling, summons, name, appellation, from καλεῖν = Latin calare, call, proclaim: see claim and calends. Hence classic, classify, etc.
= French classer, etc.; from the noun. Cf. classify.

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