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单词 class
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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:

Which class are you in this year?
She gave the whole class extra homework for a week.
My class (= the people in my class) was/were rather noisy this morning.
[ as form of address ] Okay, class, settle down and open your books.

A1 [ C, + sing/pl verb ] a period of time in which students are taught something:

My last class ends at four o'clock.
I was told off for talking in class.
Who takes/teaches your environmental studies class?
I missed my aerobics class yesterday.
Classes have been cancelled today because of a staff meeting.
the class of 2012, 2013, etc. mainly US

a group of students who successfully finished their studies in a particular year

More examples

  • 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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Classes & courses

class noun (ECONOMIC GROUP)

B2 [ C or U ] a group of people within society who have the same economic and social position:

The Labour Party has lost a lot of support among the working class.
She belongs to the rich American upper class.
We live in a middle class neighbourhood.
She comes from an upper middle class background.
He was a member of the ruling classes.
She's studying the class structure of Japan.
See also
underclass

More examples

  • 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:

Whenever I travel by train, I always travel first class.
first/second class mail
a business/economy class ticket
When it comes to mathematics, he's in a different class to his peers.

[ C ] in the UK, the standard that someone has reached in their university degree:

What class of degree did you get?
He graduated with a second-class honours degree in physics.
class A/B/C drug

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 :

He was charged with possession of a class A drug, namely heroin.
be in a class of your own

to be the best at a particular activity:

As a long-distance runner, she's in a class of her own.
be in a class by itself/of its own

to be something of such a high quality that nothing can be compared to it

be out of your class

to be much better at doing something than you:

I can't play chess with him. He's completely out of my class!

More examples

  • 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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Informal words for good

class noun (STYLE)

[ U ] the quality of being stylish or fashionable:

She's got real class.

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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:

I'm 17, but I'm still classed as a child when I travel by bus.
I would class her among/with the top ten American novelists.

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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/informal

very good:

a class act
UK He's a class golfer.

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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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