class
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1. class - Noun
2. class - Adjective
3. class - Verb
4. Class - Proper noun
Meaning
A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.
A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.
A comprehensive division of animate or inanimate objects, grouped together on account of their common characteristics, in any classification in natural science, and subdivided into orders, families, tribes, genera, etc.
A set; a kind or description, species or variety.
One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader.
To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages.
To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
To grouped or classed.
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Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
It's not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while.
It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of ups and downs.