Class vs. Generation

(countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.

Example: ‘The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family' class.’; ‘That is one class-A heifer you got there, sonny.’; ‘Often used to imply membership of a large class.’; ‘This word has a whole class of metaphoric extensions.’;

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.

(uncountable) The division of society into classes.

Example: ‘Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England.’;

(uncountable) Admirable behavior; elegance.

Example: ‘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.

Example: ‘The class was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story.’;

A series of lessons covering a single subject.

Example: ‘I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot.’;

(countable) A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.

Example: ‘The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy.’;

(countable) A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.

Example: ‘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.

Example: ‘Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida.’;

Best of its kind.

Example: ‘It is the class of Italian bottled waters.’;

(statistics) A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.

(set theory) A collection of sets definable by a shared property.

Example: ‘The class of all sets is not a set.’; ‘Every set is a class, but classes are not generally sets. A class that is not a set is called a proper class.’;

(military) A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.

A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set.

Example: ‘an abstract base class’;

One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.

(transitive) To assign to a class; to classify.

Example: ‘I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period.’;

(intransitive) To be grouped or classed.

(transitive) To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.

great; fabulous

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.

Example: ‘She had lost one class energies.’;

One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader.

One session of formal instruction in which one or more teachers instruct a group on some subject. The class may be one of a course of classes, or a single special session.

A high degree of elegance, in dress or behavior; the quality of bearing oneself with dignity, grace, and social adeptness.

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 be grouped or classed.

Example: ‘The genus or family under which it classes.’;

exhibiting refinement and high character; as, a class act. Opposite of low-class

people having the same social or economic status;

Example: ‘the working class’; ‘an emerging professional class’;

a body of students who are taught together;

Example: ‘early morning classes are always sleepy’;

education imparted in a series of lessons or class meetings;

Example: ‘he took a course in basket weaving’; ‘flirting is not unknown in college classes’;

a collection of things sharing a common attribute;

Example: ‘there are two classes of detergents’;

a body of students who graduate together;

Example: ‘the class of '97’; ‘she was in my year at Hoehandle High’;

a league ranked by quality;

Example: ‘he played baseball in class D for two years’; ‘Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA’;

elegance in dress or behavior;

Example: ‘she has a lot of class’;

(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders

arrange or order by classes or categories;

Example: ‘How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?’;

The fact of creating something, or bringing something into being; production, creation.

The act of creating a living creature or organism; procreation.

Race, family; breed.

A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit.

Example: ‘This is the book of the generations of Adam - Genesis 5:1’; ‘Ye shall remain there [in Babylon] many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations - Baruch 6:3’; ‘All generations and ages of the Christian church - Richard Hooker’;

(obsolete) Descendants, progeny; offspring.

The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time.

A set stage in the development of computing or of a specific technology.

(geometry) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude, by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.

Example: ‘the generation of a line or curve’;

A specific age range in which each person in that range can relate culturally to one another.

Example: ‘Generation X grew up in the eighties, whereas the generation known as the millennials grew up in the nineties.’;

A version of a form of pop culture which differs from later or earlier versions.

Example: ‘People sometimes dispute which generation of Star Trek is best, including the original and The Next Generation.’;

The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.

Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc.

That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring.

A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age.

Example: ‘This is the book of the generations of Adam.’; ‘Ye shall remain there [in Babylon] many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations.’; ‘All generations and ages of the Christian church.’;

Race; kind; family; breed; stock.

Example: ‘Thy mother's of my generation; what's she, if I be a dog?’;

The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.

The aggregate of the functions and phenomene which attend reproduction.

all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age

group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent

the normal time between successive generations;

Example: ‘they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade’;

a stage of technological development or innovation;

Example: ‘the third generation of computers’;

a coming into being

the production of heat or electricity;

Example: ‘dams were built for the generation of electricity’;

the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production

all of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively

Example: ‘one of his generation's finest songwriters’;

the average period, generally considered to be about thirty years, in which children grow up, become adults, and have children of their own

Example: ‘the same families have lived here for generations’;

a set of members of a family regarded as a single step or stage in descent

Example: ‘a third-generation Canadian’;

a group of people of similar age involved in a particular activity

Example: ‘a new generation of actors and directors’;

a single stage in the development of a type of product or technology

Example: ‘fourth-generation broadband’; ‘a new generation of rear-engined sports cars’;

the production or creation of something

Example: ‘methods of electricity generation’; ‘the generation of wealth’;

the propagation of living organisms; procreation.

A generation is It can also be described as, In kinship terminology, it is a structural term designating the parent-child relationship. It is known as biogenesis, reproduction, or procreation in the biological sciences.

Example: ‘all of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively.’; ‘the average period, generally considered to be about 20–⁠30 years, during which children are born and grow up, become adults, and begin to have children.’;