What is the difference between Type and Class?

Question

What makes a type different from class and vice versa?

(In the general language-agnostic sense)

Answer 1

Type is conceptually a superset of class. In the broader sense, a class is one form of type.

Closely related to classes are interfaces, which can bee seen as a very special kind of class - a purely abstract one. These too are types.

So "type" encompasses classes, interfaces and in most languages primitives too. Also platforms like the dot-net CLR have structure types too.