category
noun OPAL WOPAL S
/ˈkætəɡəri/
/ˈkætəɡɔːri/
(plural categories)
- a group of people or things with particular features in common synonym class
- These are the nominees from each category.
- in a category He competed in the youngest age category.
- Students over 25 fall into a different category.
- The results can be divided into three broad categories.
- It is not useful to divide schoolchildren into separate categories.
- The film doesn't fit into any specific category.
- by category You can filter the results by category.
Extra Examples- The line includes more than 30 product categories.
- Flutes form a separate category of wind instruments.
- Intravenous drug users are in a high-risk category for hepatitis C.
- Most of his ratings were in the highest category.
- The cities investigated fell into two broad categories.
- There's a separate category for children.
- We have created a special category for part-time workers.
- a higher category of prison
- categories based on ethnic origin
- the highest category of sexual assault
- Students over 25 are included in a different category.
- There are two main categories of homicide according to the law.
- This case does not come within any of our established categories.
- We cannot exclude whole categories of people from the legislation.
- What subject category do the documents belong to?
- Many of them fall into the same category.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- broad
- general
- large
- …
- be included in
- belong to
- come into
- …
- comprise something
- consist of something
- contain something
- …
- in a/the category
- within a/the category
- category of
- …
- be in a category (all) of its/your own
- be in its/your own category
- be in the same category (as something)
- …
Word Originlate Middle English (in the philosophical sense): from French catégorie or late Latin categoria, from Greek katēgoria ‘statement, accusation’, from katēgoros ‘accuser’.