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A category, a school session, or your social rank — somehow the same word judges all three.
means A group sharing common traits, a teaching session, a rank in society, or the quality of having style and dignity.
from From Latin classis, the divisions Roman king Servius Tullius used to sort citizens by wealth for taxes and military duty — sorting people was the original meaning.
Roman ledgerRomans below the lowest class were literally proletarii.
School arrivalMeaning of a teaching group came centuries later.
Biology borrowedLinnaeus ranked animals into classes too.
Code reuseProgramming classes blueprint objects, sorting data by type.