Word Meanings - CLASS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader. Class of a curve , the kind of a curve as expressed by the number of tangents that can be drawn from any point to the curve.

Additional info about word: CLASS

One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader. Class of a curve , the kind of a curve as expressed by the number of tangents that can be drawn from any point to the curve. A circle is of the second class. -- Class meeting , a meeting of a class under the charge of a class leader, for counsel and relegious instruction. (more info) 1. A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes. 2. A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies. 3. 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, gemera, etc. 4. A set; a kind or description, species or variety. She had lost one class energies. Macaulay.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CLASS)

• Caste
• Order
• class
• rank
• lineage
• race
• blood
• dignity
• respect
• Category
• State
• kind
• predicament
• condition
• nature
• order
• mode
• sort
• Character
• Symbol
• letter
• type
• disposition
• genius
• temperament
• cast
• estimation
• repute
• office
• reputation
• part
• capacity
• stamp
• quality
• species
• sign
• tone
• mark
• figure
• record
• Classify
• Arrange
• systematize
• adjust
• tabulate
• dispose
• collocate
• assort
• Community
• Aggregation
• association
• commonwealth
• co-ordination
• society
• sympathy
• brotherhood
• fraternity
• polity
• unity
• nationality
• similarity
• homogeneity

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CLASS)

• Obliviate
• silentiate
• suppress
• Overlook
• disregard
• dishonor
• despise
• contemn
• Suppress
• repress
• suppose
• imply
• deny
• contradict
• retract

Related words: (words related to CLASS)

• SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
  Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• BLOODSUCKER
  Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an
• CLASSIFIC
  Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• CLASSIFICATORY
  Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
• IMPLY
  1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
• BLOODSHEDDER
  One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
• CONTRADICTABLE
  Capable of being contradicting.
• CLASSICISM
  A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• CATEGORY
  One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament. The categories or predicaments -- the former a Greek
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• ASSOCIATION
  1. The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. "Some . . . bond of association." Hooker. Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. Boyle. 2. Mental connection, or that which is
• SYSTEMATIZE
  To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine
• CLASSIS
  An ecclesiastical body or judicat (more info) 1. A class or order; sort; kind. His opinion of that classis of men. Clarendon.
• BLOODULF
  The European bullfinch.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• 'SBLOOD
  An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath. Shak.
• ENSTAMP
  To stamp; to mark as It is the motive . . . which enstamps the character. Gogan.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE