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