class – English noun declension

English noun forms of class

Noun: class
Singularclass
Pluralclasses

Sample Sentences

  • The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family' class.
  • That is one class-A heifer you got there, sonny.
  • Often used to imply membership of a large class.
  • This word has a whole class of metaphoric extensions.
  • So I ask you to accept my statement that my critics fall into two classes: on the one hand my immediate accusers, and on the other those earlier ones whom I have mentioned; […] [1954, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick, “Socrates on Trial: The Apology”, in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics), Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, →OCLC, page 21:]
  • The Magpies are unbeaten and enjoying their best run since 1994, although few would have thought the class of 2011 would come close to emulating their ancestors. [2011 October 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Wolverhampton 1-2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:]
  • Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches. [2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:]
  • Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.
  • Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class.
  • The class was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story.
  • I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.
  • Tomorrow's class will cover long division.
  • The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy.
  • Thirty years ago there were only a few high schools for boys, and in 1957 the first university class consisted of only 50 young men. [1987 October, Marianne Alireza, “Women of Saudi Arabia”, in National Geographic, volume 172, number 4, page 443:]
  • I used to fly business class, but now my company can only afford economy.
  • The City & South London was also the first British passenger railway to offer only one class. [2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 101:]
  • Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida.
  • It is the class of Italian bottled waters.
  • The mark made by Cory a new Central A. U. mark and he appears to be the class of the field in this event. [1913 June 27, “The Crime Is Not in Making a Mistake, but in Repeating It.”, in Chicago Tribune:]
  • University of Southern California's 7 to 0 defeat of the mighty Cardinal team ranked the victors the class of the far west [1929 October 27, “89,000 Watch So. California Defeat Stanford, 7 to 0”, in Chicago Tribune:]
  • Roosevelt (14-1) looked very much like the class of the OIA. [2009 May 8, “Waianae forces OIA rematch”, in Honolulu Star-Bulletin:]
  • The class of all sets is not a set.
  • Every set is a class, but classes are not generally sets. A class that is not a set is called a proper class.
  • In the present section we shall discuss the various systems of set theory which admit, beside sets, also classes. Classes are like sets, except that they can be very comprehensive; an extreme example of a class is the class which contains all sets.[…]The main point which will, in our opinion, emerge from this analysis is that set theory with classes and set theory with sets only are not two separate theories; they are, essentially, different formulations of the same underlying theory. [1973, Abraham Fraenkel, Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, Azriel Lévy, Foundations of Set Theory, 2nd edition, Elsevier, page 119:]
  • an abstract base class

Etymology

From Middle French classe, from Latin classis (“a class or division of the people, assembly of people, the whole body of citizens called to arms, the army, the fleet, later a class or division in general”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, shout”). Doublet of clas and classis. See: Latin Nouns 'classis'.

Verbs referencing "class"

Zulu Nouns ikilasi.