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Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes. · 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. · Admirable behavior; elegance.
From Middle French classe, from Latin classis (“a class or division of the people, assembly of people, the whole body of citizens called to arms, the army, the fleet, later a class or division in general”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, shout”). Doublet of clas and classis. Displaced Old English ġecynd.
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