classnoun
uk/klɑːs/us/klæs/class noun (TEACHING GROUP)
A1 [ C, + sing/pl verb ] a group of students who are taught together at school, college, or university:
A1 [ C, + sing/pl verb ] a period of time in which students are taught something:
a group of students who successfully finished their studies in a particular year
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- Sophie is way ahead of the other children in her class.
- She never paid attention in class and seemed to be in a permanent daydream.
- I think it's important to reduce class sizes in schools.
- We've started going to a keep-fit class at the sports centre.
- She's signed up for evening classes at the community college.
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Students & pupils
- -grader
- alumna
- alumnus
- attrition
- batchmate
- boarder
- entrant
- frosh
- graduate
- houseman
- infant
- internship
- learner
- pupil
- schoolchild
- schoolgirl
- schoolmate
- sixth-former
- sophomore
- theologian
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class noun (ECONOMIC GROUP)
B2 [ C or U ] a group of people within society who have the same economic and social position:
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- The upper classes usually send their children to expensive private schools.
- There is a widening gulf between the middle classes and the poorest sections of society.
- The upper middle class tend to go into business or the professions, becoming, for example, lawyers, doctors, or accountants.
- The working class usually reacts in a predictable way to government policies.
- In those days people were expected to marry someone from their own social class.
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Class & class-consciousness in general
- arriviste
- bougie
- bourgeois
- class struggle
- class-conscious
- high society
- Hooray Henry
- inverted snob
- lower class
- lowest common denominator
- polarize
- prole
- proletarian
- riff-raff
- Sloane Ranger
- the upper crust
- underclass
- untouchable
- upper class
- upwardly mobile
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class noun (RANK)
A2 [ C ] a group into which goods, services, or people are put according to their standard:
[ C ] in the UK, the standard that someone has reached in their university degree:
in UK law, a group of illegal drugs classified according to how dangerous they are thought to be and how severe the punishment is for using or selling them, with class A the most dangerous :
to be the best at a particular activity:
to be something of such a high quality that nothing can be compared to it
to be much better at doing something than you:
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- They always fly economy class.
- Because of the delay, we were offered seats in first class.
- I'd like you to send this for me first class, please.
- Most of the girls were good at drawing, but Jenny was in a class of her own.
- When it comes to cooking, Jane's in a different class to the rest of us.
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Quality and standard
- benchmark
- cachet
- calibre
- conform
- conform to/with sth
- conformance
- conformity
- ideal
- level
- mark
- notch
- plane
- prestige
- qualitative
- quality
- quality assurance
- star
- status
- style
- upscale
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class noun (STYLE)
[ U ] the quality of being stylish or fashionable:
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Modern & fashionable
- be (all) the rage idiom
- be having a moment idiom
- be the last word in sth idiom
- be the new sth idiom
- futuristic
- get with the programme idiom
- happening
- high-tech
- hip
- hipster
- minute 1
- programme
- progressive
- sharp
- space-age
- state-of-the-art
- street cred
- swinger
- swinging
- à la mode
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class noun (BIOLOGY)
[ C ] specialized biology a group of related plants or animals, in the general classification of plants and animals
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Species & genders
- breed
- female
- genera
- genus
- he
- m
- male
- order
- paramecium
- phylum
- related
- same-gender
- she
- species
- strain
- subspecies
classverb [ T ]
uk/klɑːs/us/klæs/C1 to consider someone or something to belong to a particular group because of their qualities:
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Classifying and creating order
- alphabetize
- arrange
- arrangement
- catalogue
- categorize
- format
- organization
- precedence
- prioritize
- put sth/sb in a pigeonhole idiom
- range
- reconstruct
- rejig
- stream
- tick sth off
- topology
- track
- tracking
- triage
- umbrella
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classadjective
uk/klɑːs/us/klæs/informalvery good:
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Informal words for good
- A-OK
- ace
- amazeballs
- apple pie
- awesomesauce
- badass
- champion
- jim-dandy
- juicy
- killer
- knock
- knock spots off sth idiom
- magic
- rule
- sight
- smashing
- some
- splendiferous
- steal the show/scene idiom
- stupendous
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