class
part of speech
noun (class, classes); verb (class, classed — to put into a group); adjective (casual: class — excellent)
meaning for a pupil
1) A class is a group of students who learn together. tree →
2) A class is a lesson or a time of teaching: «a dance class». tree →
3) A class is a group of things that are alike: «Mammals are a class of animals». tree →
4) Class can mean the level of a ticket or a seat: «first class». tree →
5) Class can mean a group of people with the same money or job in society: «working class», «middle class». tree →
6) (casual) «Class» (UK, Ireland) means excellent: «That goal was class!»; «classy» means stylish. tree →
7) (rude) «No class» means rude or badly behaved. tree →
8) (formal) Exams say «cohort», «form» (UK), «grade» (USA), «a teaching group», «classify» and «category». tree →
sense in the lessons
a group of students, often an equal group: classes × students each = students; in science, animals are sorted into classes; phrases: «in class», «class teacher», «classmate», «classroom», «first class», «class trip», «class of»; in casual talk «that was class», «classy», «top of the class»; in rough talk «zero class, he burped in assembly»; in the exam voice «a cohort of 25 pupils», «six teaching groups», «classify the following»
examples
- In the first edition I overlooked this word three; and putting and for as, made four classes of serving beings. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
- With these three classes, or groups, of letters were created the various parts of the world ish'-j), of the year ("Jti') and of tiie soul. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
- There are 24 students in the class. tree →
- The school has 6 classes. tree →
- Each class has 25 students. tree →
- How many students are in all the classes? tree →
- Please be quiet in class. tree →
- I go to a swimming class on Saturdays. tree →
- Birds and mammals are two classes of animals. tree →
- That goal was class, mate! tree →
- Zero class, he ate 5 of my chips without asking. tree →
- We flew first class once. tree →
- An institution comprises six cohorts, each of 25 pupils. Compute the aggregate enrolment. tree →
- Classify the following animals: bird, fish, mammal. tree →
- These stories are of several different classes. tree →
note
Plural: classes. A group: classes × students each = students. Trap: the number of classes is not the number of students. «cohort» and «teaching group» in an exam mean a class. «class!» in UK and Irish slang means great, with no number meaning. «grade 3» (USA) is about «year 4» (UK).
In the corpora
- And there it hurts most, because the person has to walk into class the next morning.
- Even grown-ups often can't spot a fake picture by looking; in Maddie's class half got it wrong.
- A word wall in class shows key words so children can check them; using it is how spellings get learned, not cheating.
- A recount retells real events in time order: «On Tuesday, Class 4 went to the seaside.
- A word's class depends on its job in THIS sentence.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «class» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.