Definition of class

• n. - A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.
• n. - A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.
• n. - 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.
• n. - A set; a kind or description, species or variety.
• n. - One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader.
• n. - To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages.
• n. - To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
• v. i. - To grouped or classed.