Class crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Class” are GRADE, FIRST or WOMAN, with 5 letters. Below are 33 answers from 3 to 11 letters, best match first in each length, then what each top answer means and how to tell them apart.

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The best answers, explained

CUT 3 letters · noun

an unexcused absence from class “he was punished for taking too many cuts in his math class”

YEAR 4 letters · noun

a body of students who graduate together “she was in my year at Hoehandle High”

GRADE 5 letters · noun

a body of students who are taught together

FAMILY 6 letters · noun

a collection of things sharing a common attribute

STRATUM 7 letters · noun

people having the same social, economic, or educational status

DIVISION 8 letters · noun

a league ranked by quality “Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA”

BOURGEOIS 9 letters · adjective

(according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class

UNDERWORLD 10 letters · noun

the criminal class

AGRICULTURE 11 letters · noun

the class of people engaged in growing food

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, YEAR, FORM and SORT all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: Y → YEAR · F → FORM · S → SORT. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, GRADE, FIRST, WOMAN and STAMP all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: G → GRADE · F → FIRST · W → WOMAN · S → STAMP. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 6 squares, FAMILY, COURSE, ASSORT, MEMBER, BELONG and ADVERB all fit. The sixth letter tells them all apart: Y → FAMILY · E → COURSE · T → ASSORT · R → MEMBER · G → BELONG · B → ADVERB. Fill in that crossing answer first.

Other forms of this clue

Clues often use another form of the word, and the answer then takes the same form: “classed” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “class” means

• noun: a collection of things sharing a common attribute (“there are two classes of detergents”)
• noun: a body of students who are taught together (“early morning classes are always sleepy”)
• noun: people having the same social, economic, or educational status (“the working class”)
• noun: education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings (“flirting is not unknown in college classes”)

A clue usually points at one of these senses, so the right answer is the one that matches the sense the puzzle means: check it against the crossing words.

About these answers

We match the clue against our own thesaurus and dictionary (Open English WordNet): words that mean the same as CLASS, and words whose definition is CLASS. We don't copy answers from newspaper puzzles, so a clue that leans on trivia or wordplay may need the crossing letters instead.