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classes

  • plural
    of class.
    class
    noun
    a number of persons or things regarded as forming a group by reason of common attributes, characteristics, qualities, or traits; kind; sort.
  • plural
    of classis.
    classis
    noun
    the organization of pastors and elders that governs a group of local churches; a presbytery.
  • present tense form
    of class (3rd person singular).
    class
    noun
    a number of persons or things regarded as forming a group by reason of common attributes, characteristics, qualities, or traits; kind; sort.

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Only Kinmen county, an archipelago located to the west of Taiwan's main island, continued work and classes as usual.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

After working for many years in India's luxury hotels, chef Shikha Gupta, who teaches bakery and pastry-making at Vatel, is pleased to see her classes have "as many men as women."

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

"There are three classes of these particles," explains Tobias Weissenborn, a physicist and doctoral candidate at Leibniz University Hannover.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

South Korean director Lee Chang-dong’s Netflix film carefully attends to the story of two couples of disparate classes who become increasingly entangled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Some of them Boaz had known forever, like Rabbi Maimon, who he had met the first time he came for the children’s classes and had been in the shul since its founding.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny