Word Type
Class can be a verb, an adjective or a noun.
class used as a verb:
- To assign to a class.
"I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
class used as an adjective:
- great; fabulous
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
class used as a noun:
- A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
"The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family' class." - A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes; upper class, middle class and working class.
- The division of society into classes.
"Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England." - Admirable behavior; elegance.
"Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class." - A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
"The class was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story." - A series of classes covering a single subject.
"I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot." - A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
"The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy." - A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
"I used to fly business class, but now my company can only afford economy." - A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
"Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida." - A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set.
- A collection of sets definable by a shared property.
"The class of all sets is not a set." - Best of its kind.
"It is the class of Italian bottled waters." - A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is class?
- Verb usage: I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.
- Noun usage: The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family' class.
- Noun usage: That is one class-A heifer you got there, sonny.
- Noun usage: Often used to imply membership of a large class.
- Noun usage: This word has a whole class of metaphoric extensions.
- Noun usage: Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.
- Noun usage: Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class.
- Noun usage: The class was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story.
- Noun usage: I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.
- Noun usage: The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy.
- Noun usage: I used to fly business class, but now my company can only afford economy.
- Noun usage: Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida.
- Noun usage: The class of all sets is not a set.
- Noun usage: It is the class of Italian bottled waters.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of class are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of class, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
