Definitions
A group or class used for sorting things.
Word origin
Late Middle English, borrowed from French catégorie, from Middle French categorie, from Late Latin catēgoria (“class of predicables”), from Ancient Greek κατηγορία (katēgoría, “head of predicables”). Doublet of categoria.
Used in a sentence
“This steep and dangerous climb belongs to the most difficult category.”
“I wouldn’t put this book in the same category as the author’s first novel.”
“One well-known category has sets as objects and functions as arrows.”
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01“Class or group”8 letters
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