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Class

A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.

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Broader term 15

Accumulation 76% connected

The act of accumulating, the state of being accumulated, or that which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of…

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Aggregation 76% connected

The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.

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Assemblage 76% connected

The act of assembling, or the state of being assembled; association.

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Categorize 76% connected

To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.

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Collection 76% connected

The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.

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Conference 76% connected

The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison.

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Didactics 76% connected

The art or science of teaching.

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Education 76% connected

The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act o…

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Elegance 76% connected

Alt. of Elegancy

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Gathering 76% connected

of Gather

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Instruction 76% connected

The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information.

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League 76% connected

A measure of length or distance, varying in different countries from about 2.4 to 4.6 English statute miles of 5.280 feet each, and used (as a land m…

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Pedagogy 76% connected

Pedagogics; pedagogism.

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People 76% connected

The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.

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Teaching 76% connected

of Teach

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Narrower term 40

Agriculture 76% connected

The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; fa…

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Bourgeoisie 76% connected

The French middle class, particularly such as are concerned in, or dependent on, trade.

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Brotherhood 76% connected

The state of being brothers or a brother.

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Caste 76% connected

One of the hereditary classes into which the Hindoos are divided according to the laws of Brahmanism.

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Center 76% connected

A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or plac…

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Centre 76% connected

To be placed in a center; to be central.

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Commonalty 76% connected

The common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility; the commons.

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Commons 76% connected

The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people.

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Conjugation 76% connected

the act of uniting or combining; union; assemblage.

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Craft 76% connected

Strength; might; secret power.

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Declension 76% connected

The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.

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Demimonde 76% connected

Persons of doubtful reputation; esp., women who are kept as mistresses, though not public prostitutes; demireps.

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Denomination 76% connected

The act of naming or designating.

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Domain 76% connected

Dominion; empire; authority.

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Elective 76% connected

Exerting the power of choice; selecting; as, an elective act.

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Estate 76% connected

Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation.

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Fraternity 76% connected

The state or quality of being fraternal or brotherly; brotherhood.

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Labor 76% connected

Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort di…

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Labour 76% connected

productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

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Market 76% connected

A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of traffic (as in cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and…

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Orientation 76% connected

The act or process of orientating; determination of the points of the compass, or the east point, in taking bearings.

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Paradigm 76% connected

An example; a model; a pattern.

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Patriciate 76% connected

The patrician class; the aristocracy; also, the office of patriarch.

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Peasantry 76% connected

Peasants, collectively; the body of rustics.

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Proletariat 76% connected

The indigent class in the State; the body of proletarians.

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Propaedeutic 76% connected

Alt. of Propaedeutical

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Propaedeutics 76% connected

The preliminary learning connected with any art or science; preparatory instruction.

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Refresher 76% connected

One who, or that which, refreshes.

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Section 76% connected

The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

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Sex 76% connected

The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of prope…

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Shop 76% connected

imp. of Shape. Shaped.

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Sodality 76% connected

A fellowship or fraternity; a brotherhood.

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Stamp 76% connected

To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.

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Trade 76% connected

A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.

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Underworld 76% connected

The lower of inferior world; the world which is under the heavens; the earth.

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Woman 76% connected

An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.

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Womanhood 76% connected

The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind.

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Workshop 76% connected

A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on.

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World 76% connected

The earth and the surrounding heavens; the creation; the system of created things; existent creation; the universe.

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Yeomanry 76% connected

The position or rank of a yeoman.

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Manner of action 14

Catalog 76% connected

Catalogue.

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Catalogue 76% connected

A list or enumeration of names, or articles arranged methodically, often in alphabetical order; as, a catalogue of the students of a college, or of b…

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Count 76% connected

To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enumerate; to comp…

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Dichotomize 76% connected

To cut into two parts; to part into two divisions; to divide into pairs; to bisect.

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Grade 76% connected

A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of fl…

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Group 76% connected

A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of…

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Isolate 76% connected

To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or alone; to insulate; to separate from others.

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Number 76% connected

That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage m…

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Pigeonhole 76% connected

A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping of letters, documents, etc.; -- so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartm…

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Refer 76% connected

To carry or send back.

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Size 76% connected

Six.

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Stamp 76% connected

To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.

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Stereotype 76% connected

A plate forming an exact faximile of a page of type or of an engraving, used in printing books, etc.; specifically, a plate with type-metal face, use…

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Unitize 76% connected

To reduce to a unit, or one whole; to form into a unit; to unify.

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Categorical 74% connected

Of or pertaining to a category.

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Categorical 74% connected

Of or pertaining to a category.

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Category 74% connected

One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or…

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Category 74% connected

One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or…

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Relegate 74% connected

To remove, usually to an inferior position; to consign; to transfer; specifically, to send into exile; to banish.

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Relegate 74% connected

To remove, usually to an inferior position; to consign; to transfer; specifically, to send into exile; to banish.

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Sort 74% connected

Chance; lot; destiny.

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Sort 74% connected

Chance; lot; destiny.

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Entails 1

Compare 72% connected

To examine the character or qualities of, as of two or more persons or things, for the purpose of discovering their resemblances or differences; to b…

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Component part 4

Lecture 70% connected

The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture.

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Lecturing 70% connected

of Lecture

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Lesson 70% connected

Anything read or recited to a teacher by a pupil or learner; something, as a portion of a book, assigned to a pupil to be studied or learned at one t…

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Recitation 70% connected

The act of reciting; rehearsal; repetition of words or sentences.

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Member part 1

Order 70% connected

Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system

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Containing group 1

Phylum 70% connected

One of the larger divisions of the animal kingdom; a branch; a grand division.

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Containing whole 1

Society 70% connected

The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company.

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Synonym 12

Assort 92% connected

To separate and distribute into classes, as things of a like kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to classify; as, to ass…

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Category 92% connected

One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or…

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Classify 92% connected

To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.

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Course 92% connected

The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.

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Division 92% connected

The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.

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Family 92% connected

The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as…

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form 92% connected

A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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Grade 92% connected

A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of fl…

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Separate 92% connected

To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

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Sort 92% connected

Chance; lot; destiny.

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Stratum 92% connected

A bed of earth or rock of one kind, formed by natural causes, and consisting usually of a series of layers, which form a rock as it lies between beds…

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Year 92% connected

The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called…

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