Definition of Class

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Definition of Class

Class

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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Class Quotations

I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
Barack Obama

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
Mark Twain

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
Mark Twain

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Napoleon Hill

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
Ayn Rand

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
Pablo Picasso

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
Aristotle

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
Oscar Wilde

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Plato

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
Walt Whitman

Class Translations

class in Afrikaans is kursus, klas
class in Dutch is klas, klasse, stand
class in Finnish is kurssi
class in German is Klasse
class in Italian is categoria, ceto
class in Latin is numerus, genus, ordo
class in Norwegian is klasse
class in Portuguese is classe
class in Spanish is curso, cursillo, clase, categoria
class in Swedish is klass

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