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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024cat•e•go•ry /ˈkætɪˌgɔri/USA pronunciation n. [countable], pl. -ries. - any group or division in a system of classification:several categories of students: part-time, full-time, degree, and nondegree.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024cat•e•go•ry (kat′i gôr′ē, -gōr′ē),USA pronunciation n., pl. -ries. - any general or comprehensive division;
a class. - a classificatory division in any field of knowledge, as a phylum or any of its subdivisions in biology.
- Philosophy[Metaphys.]
- (in Aristotelian philosophy) any of the fundamental modes of existence, such as substance, quality, and quantity, as determined by analysis of the different possible kinds of predication.
- (in Kantian philosophy) any of the fundamental principles of the understanding, as the principle of causation.
- any classification of terms that is ultimate and not susceptible to further analysis.
- Games categories. Also called Guggenheim. (used with a sing. v.) a game in which a key word and a list of categories, as dogs, automobiles, or rivers, are selected, and in which each player writes down a word in each category that begins with each of the letters of the key word, the player writing down the most words within a time limit being declared the winner.
- Mathematicsa type of mathematical object, as a set, group, or metric space, together with a set of mappings from such an object to other objects of the same type.
- GrammarSee part of speech.
- Greek katēgoría accusation (also, kind of predication), equivalent. to katé̄gor(os) accuser, affirmer (katēgor(eîn) to accuse, affirm, literally, speak publicly against, equivalent. to kata- cata- + -agoreîn to speak before the agora + -os noun, nominal suffix) + -ia -y3
- Late Latin catēgoria
- 1580–90
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged group, grouping, type.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: category /ˈkætɪɡərɪ/ n ( pl -ries)- a class or group of things, people, etc, possessing some quality or qualities in common; a division in a system of classification
- any one of the most basic classes into which objects and concepts can be analysed
- (in the philosophy of Aristotle) any one of ten most fundamental modes of being, such as quantity, quality, and substance
- (in the philosophy of Kant) one of twelve concepts required by human beings to interpret the empirical world
Etymology: 15th Century: from Late Latin catēgoria, from Greek katēgoria, from kategorein to accuse, assert |