Class and Period

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Class noun - One of the segments of society into which people are grouped.

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Period is a synonym for class in lesson topic. In some cases you can use "Period" instead a noun "Class".

Period noun - An occurrence of menstruating.

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Class is a synonym for period in lesson topic. Sometimes you can use "Class" instead a noun "Period".

good	good class	good period
full	full class	full period
best	best class	best period
particular	particular class	particular period
Other adjectives: similar, normal, specific, certain, current, original, single, popular, actual, entire, real, wrong, new, next, last, different.

To the very end of the Sherlock Holmes canon, despite being best friends and living through years (even decades) of perilous adventures together, Holmes and Watson still use each other's last names, but this would be absolutely Truth in Television for Englishmen of their period and class.

Source: Last Name Basis / Literature
Attitudes toward pre- and extra-marital sex and illegitimacy varied widely from class to class, time period to time period, and country to country.

Source: Eternal Sexual Freedom
The latter two series use the Gorgeous Period Dress of the upper-class viewpoint characters as contrast to the dress of the servants and lower-class viewpoint characters.

Source: Gorgeous Period Dress

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