CLASS
What does "CLASS" mean?
A group of students taught together, or a set of things sharing common attributes.
Meanings
- A group of students taught together, or a session of teaching. She has a history class at nine in the morning.
- A division of society based on social or economic status. The novel explores tensions between the working class and the gentry.
- A set or category of things sharing common attributes. Whales belong to the class Mammalia, not to the fish. technical
- Stylish sophistication or refined excellence. She handled the insult with real class. informal
- To assign to a category; to classify. The film is classed as a documentary.
Did you know?
- The biological 'class' you learned in school - the rank between phylum and order - comes from the system Carl Linnaeus laid out in his 1735 'Systema Naturae'.
Word origin
From Latin 'classis', a division of the Roman people for military levy and taxation; into French 'classe' and English by the 17th century.
Remember it
CLASS keeps two S's the way a classroom keeps two rows of seats.
A little poem
Chalk dust, a bell, the shuffle of chairs-
thirty futures bent over the same page,
and one of them is yours.
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Wordplay
- I took a class on how to read a clock. It only lasted an hour - but I learned all about second chances.
What it teaches
True class is how you treat people who can do nothing for you.
Quick facts
What does CLASS mean?
A group of students taught together, or a set of things sharing common attributes.
Is CLASS a valid word?
Yes — CLASS is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is CLASS?
CLASS has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does CLASS come from?
From Latin 'classis', a division of the Roman people for military levy and taxation; into French 'classe' and English by the 17th century.
What can CLASS teach us?
True class is how you treat people who can do nothing for you.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.