Meaning

2 senses
  1. A collection of organisms that is given formal recognition at the rank of class with a taxonomic name, but which is known to be an artificial group rather than a natural one.

    All fungi for which sexual reproduction is unknown are assigned to the form class Deuteromycota until such reproduction is discovered in that species.

  2. A form room, a homeroom.

More definitions
  • one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Form is temporary, class is permanent.

  2. They form a class by themselves.

    deSie bilden eine Klasse für sich. — al_ex_an_der

Forms

plural: form classes
Singularform class
Pluralform classes

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context:part of speechword class

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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