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kelas

Pronunciation: /kəˈlas/

“kelas” is a Malay word. Its 9 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
  2. (sociology) a social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc.
  3. a group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year.
  4. a series of lessons covering a single subject.
  5. a category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation
  6. a rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
  7. a collection of sets definable by a shared property.
  8. a set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set.

adjective

  1. of tides: still, at its highest flow before the ebb

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch klas and klasse later reinforced by English class, from Middle French classe, from Latin classis.

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