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noun
- 1. a class or division of people or things regarded as having particular shared characteristics: "the various categories of research"
- 2. each of a possibly exhaustive set of classes among which all things might be distributed.
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CATEGORY definition: 1. (in a system for dividing things according to appearance, quality, etc.) a type, or a group of…. Learn more.
CATEGORY meaning: 1. (in a system for dividing things according to appearance, quality, etc.) a type, or a group of…. Learn more.
The meaning of CATEGORY is any of several fundamental and distinct classes to which entities or concepts belong. How to use category in a sentence.
Definition of category noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
a group of people or things of a similar type: Our customers fall into two main categories: retired people and housewives. Fewer examples. As a writer he didn't really fit into any category. There are three categories of accommodation - standard, executive and deluxe. There are about ten categories of muder punishable by death.
noun. a class or group of things, people, etc, possessing some quality or qualities in common; a division in a system of classification. metaphysics any one of the most basic classes into which objects and concepts can be analysed.
noun Word forms: plural -ries. 1. a class or group of things, people, etc, possessing some quality or qualities in common; a division in a system of classification. 2. metaphysics. any one of the most basic classes into which objects and concepts can be analysed. 3.
A category is a group of things that share some commonality. Think of the game show "Jeopardy!," and how each column is a different category of questions — like "Literary Characters" or "Potent Potables." The noun category has the sense of ordering or sorting.
1. A specifically defined division in a system of classification; a class. 2. A general class of ideas, terms, or things that mark divisions or coordinations within a conceptual scheme, especially: a. Aristotle's modes of objective being, such as quality, quantity, or relation, that are inherent in all things. b.
Category Definition. A class or division in a scheme of classification. A general class of ideas, terms, or things that mark divisions or coordinations within a conceptual scheme, especially: Any of the various basic concepts into which all knowledge can be classified.
