class

1. 1.

   arrange or order by classes or categories

   “How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?”

   Synonymsclassifysortassortsort outseparate

   Broadercategorize

   Narrowerunitizecatalogueisolatereferreclassifysizedichotomizepigeonholegroupgrade

Other forms of class

plural

classes·

past tense

classed·

present participle

classing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about class

What does class mean?

class means "a collection of things sharing a common attribute". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in class?

class has 1 syllable: class. In IPA it is /ˈklæs/.

What is another word for class?

Close synonyms include category, family, form, grade, course. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is class a common word?

class is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with class?

5 words rhyme with class. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.