Other forms: classes
A class is the hour you spend being taught, and the group of people taught with you. I have a class at nine, she is the best in the class, we were in the same class at school.
It also divides things by level or by rank: first class and economy class on a plane, and the social sense — working class, middle class — which is what the word means in history and politics. And used on its own it is praise: that goal had real class. Classic, classical and classroom all come from the same root.
1nounlessonA period of teaching, or the group of students taught together.~30%
“My first class is at nine.”
2nounclassA broad social group defined by wealth and background.~40%
“He wrote about class in Victorian England.”
3nounqualityA level of quality or comfort you pay for.~30%
“They upgraded us to business class.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 17 sentences found in the wild and placed 10 of them on a sense (7 were unclear) — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
Latin
classis
Middle French
classe
English, today
class
Borrowed from Middle French classe, from Latin classis. 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”). a doublet of clas and classis. ġecynd.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA