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category

Syllabification: (cat·e·go·ry)
Pronunciation: /ˈkatəˌgôrē/
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Definition of category

noun (plural categories)

  • 1a class or division of people or things regarded as having particular shared characteristics:five categories of intelligence
  • 2 Philosophy one of a possibly exhaustive set of classes among which all things might be distributed.
  • one of the a priori conceptions applied by the mind to sense impressions.

Derivatives

categorial

Pronunciation: /ˌkatəˈgôrēəl/
adjective

Origin:

late Middle English (sense 2): from French catégorie or late Latin categoria, from Greek katēgoria 'statement, accusation', from katēgoros 'accuser'

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