different between class vs place

English

Etymology

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 *kelh?- (“to call, shout”). Doublet of classis.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, Ireland, New England) enPR: kläs, IPA^(key): /kl??s/
• (Northern England, Scotland) enPR: kl?s, IPA^(key): /klæs/, /klas/
• (General American, NYC) enPR: kl?s, IPA^(key): /klæs/, /kle?s/
• Rhymes: -??s, -æs
• Hyphenation: class

Noun

class (countable and uncountable, plural classes)

1. (countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
3. (sociology, countable) 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.
4. (uncountable) The division of society into classes.

5. (uncountable) Admirable behavior; elegance.

7. (education, countable and uncountable) A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.

8. A series of lessons covering a single subject.

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

10. (countable) A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
12. (taxonomy, countable) A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.

13. Best of its kind.
14. (statistics) A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.
16. (set theory) A collection of sets definable by a shared property.
    • 1973, Abraham Fraenkel, Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, Azriel Lévy, Foundations of Set Theory, Elsevier, 2nd Edition, page 119,

      In the present section we shall discuss the various systems of set theory which admit, beside sets, also classes. Classes are like sets, except that they can be very comprehensive; an extreme example of a class is the class which contains all sets. […] The main point which will, in our opinion, emerge from this analysis is that set theory with classes and set theory with sets only are not two separate theories; they are, essentially, different formulations of the same underlying theory.

17. (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.
19. (object-oriented programming, countable) A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set.

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

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:class

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (kurasu)

Translations

Verb

class (third-person singular simple present classes, present participle classing, simple past and past participle classed)

1. (transitive) To assign to a class; to classify.
2. (intransitive) To be grouped or classed.
   • 1790, Edward Tatham, The Chart and Scale of Truth

     the genus or family under which it classes

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

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

class (not comparable)

1. (Ireland, Britain, slang) great; fabulous
   • 2009, Erik Qualman, Socialnomics

     To talented authors Tim Ash and Brian Reich for introducing me to John Wiley & Sons—a truly class outfit.

Related terms

References

• class in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• class in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• "class" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 60.
• class at OneLook Dictionary Search
• class in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.

Further reading

• Von Neumann–Bernays–Gödel set theory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Old Irish

Verb

·class

1. passive singular preterite conjunct of claidid

Mutation

English

Alternative forms

• pleace (some English dialects: 18th–19th centuries; Scots: until the 17th century)

Pronunciation

• enPR: pl?s, IPA^(key): /ple?s/, [p?l?e?s]
• Rhymes: -e?s
• Homophone: plaice

Etymology 1

From Middle English place, conflation of Old English plæse, plætse, plæ?e (“place, an open space, street”) and Old French place (“place, an open space”), both from Latin platea (“plaza, wide street”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (plateîa), shortening of ??????? ???? (plateîa hodós, “broad way”), from Proto-Indo-European *plat- (“to spread”), extended form of *pleh?- (“flat”). Displaced native Old English st?w. Compare also English pleck (“plot of ground”), West Frisian plak (“place, spot, location”), Dutch plek (“place, spot, patch”). Doublet of piatza, piazza, and plaza.

Noun

place (plural places)

1. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
   1. An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard.
      • c. 1590, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act IV, scene iv

        Ay, sir, the other squirrel was stolen from me by the hangman's boys in the market-place

   2. (often in street names or addresses) A street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square, or plaza of the same name.

   3. An inhabited area: a village, town, or city.
   4. Any area of the earth: a region.
   5. The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit.

   6. The area where one lives: one's home, formerly (chiefly) country estates and farms.
      • 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 2:

        My Lady Dedlock has been down at what she calls, in familiar conversation, her "place" in Lincolnshire.

   7. An area of the skin.
   8. (euphemistic slang) An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
      • 1901, John Stephen Farmer & al., Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present, Vol. V, page 220:

        Place,... (2) a jakes, or house of ease.

      • 1951, William Styron, Lie Down in Darkness, Ch. ii, page 59:

        ‘I guess I'll take this opportunity to go to the place’...
        ‘She means the little girls room.’

   9. (obsolete) An area to fight: a battlefield or the contested ground in a battle.
2. A location or position in space.
3. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
4. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
5. (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
6. A frame of mind.

7. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
8. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
   1. A role or purpose; a station.
      • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Great Place

        Men in great place are thrice servants.
   2. The position of a contestant in a competition.

   3. (horse-racing) The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position.

   4. The position as a member of a sports team.

9. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
10. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.

11. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
    • a. 1788, Mather Byles, quoted in The Life of James Otis by William Tudor

      In the first place, I do not understand politics; in the second place, you all do, every man and mother's son of you; in the third place, you have politics all the week, pray let one day in the seven be devoted to religion […]

12. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.

    • My word hath no place in you.

Synonyms

• (market square): courtyard, piazza, plaza, square
• (somewhere to sit): seat
• (outhouse or lavatory): See Thesaurus:bathroom
• (location): location, position, situation, stead, stell, spot
• (frame of mind): frame of mind, mindset, mood

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Pijin: ples
• Tok Pisin: ples

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English placen, from the noun (see above).

Verb

place (third-person singular simple present places, present participle placing, simple past and past participle placed)

1. (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.

2. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
   1. (intransitive, racing) To finish second, especially of horses or dogs.

3. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.

4. (transitive, passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.

5. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
6. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).

7. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.

8. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).

Conjugation

Additional archaic forms include the second-person singular past tense placedst.

Synonyms

• (to earn a given spot):
• (to put in a specific location): deposit, lay, lay down, put down
• (to remember where and when something or someone was previously encountered):
• (passive, to achieve a certain position): achieve, make
• (to sing (a note) with the correct pitch): reach
• (to arrange for, make (a bet)):
• (to recruit or match an appropriate person):

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Capel, Caple, capel, caple, clape

Czech

Alternative forms

• placu (locative singular)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?plat?s?]
• Rhymes: -ats?
• Hyphenation: pla?ce

Noun

place

1. vocative/locative singular of plac

Anagrams

• palce, palec

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plas/
• Homophones: placent, places

Etymology 1

From Old French place, from Latin platea, from Ancient Greek ??????? (plateîa).

Noun

place f (plural places)

1. place, square, plaza, piazza
2. place, space, room
3. place, seat

Derived terms

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: laplas (with definite article la)
  • ? English: laplas
• ? Moroccan Arabic: ?????? (bla?a)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

place

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of placer
2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of placer
3. second-person singular imperative of placer

Further reading

• “place” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• clape, Le Cap

Interlingua

Verb

place

1. present of placer
2. imperative of placer

Latin

Verb

plac?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of place?

Old French

Alternative forms

• plache, plaise, plas

Etymology

From Latin platea.

Noun

place f (oblique plural places, nominative singular place, nominative plural places)

1. place; location

Descendants

• French: place
  • Haitian Creole: laplas (with definite article la)
    • ? English: laplas
• ? Irish: plás (through Anglo-Norman)
• ? Middle Dutch: plaetse
  • Dutch: plaats
  • Limburgish: plaotsj, plaatsj
• ? Middle High German: blaz, plaz
  • German: Platz
    • ? Czech: plac
    • ? Estonian: plats
    • ? Macedonian: ???? (plac)
    • ? Polish: plac
      • ? Russian: ???? (plac)
    • ? Serbo-Croatian:
      • Cyrillic: ????
      • Latin: plac
  • Luxembourgish: Plaz
• ? Middle Low German: platse, platze
  • ? Old Norse: plaz
    • Danish: plads
    • Faroese: pláss
    • Norwegian: plass
    • Old Swedish: platz
      • Swedish: plats
    • Westrobothnian: plass
• ? Middle English: place (conflated with Old English plæse, plætse, plæ?e)
  • English: place
    • Pijin: ples
    • Tok Pisin: ples
• ? Moroccan Arabic: ?????? (bla?a)
• Norman: plache (through Old Northern French plache)
• Walloon: plaece
• ? Welsh: plas

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (place, supplement)
• place on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pla.t?s?/

Noun

place m inan

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of plac

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?plat??e]

Verb

place

1. second-person singular imperative of pl?cea
2. third-person singular present indicative of pl?cea

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /?pla?e/, [?pla.?e]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?plase/, [?pla.se]

Verb

place

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of placer.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of placer.