"character class" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: character classes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} character class (plural character classes)
  1. (roleplaying games) One of a number of pre-determined groups into which characters in role-playing games are grouped, based on the focus of their skills. Categories (topical): Role-playing games, Dungeons & Dragons Translations (group): hahmoluokka (Finnish) Translations (in regex): signoklaso (Esperanto), merkkiryhmä (Finnish), classe de caractères [feminine] (French), κλάση χαρακτήρων (klási charaktíron) [feminine] (Greek)
    Sense id: en-character_class-en-noun-mh8f-vD5 Disambiguation of Dungeons & Dragons: 91 9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 64 36 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 63 37 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 67 33 Disambiguation of 'group': 100 0 Disambiguation of 'in regex': 72 28
  2. (regular expressions) A set of related text characters, such as all alphanumerics or all whitespace. Categories (topical): Regular expressions
    Sense id: en-character_class-en-noun-dCjOEiRB

Inflected forms

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