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category

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun category has 2 senses

category(n = noun.group) class, family - a collection of things sharing a common attribute; "there are two classes of detergents"

has particulars: grammatical category, syntactic category, paradigm, substitution class, brass family, violin family, woodwind family, stamp, sex, declension, conjugation, denomination, histocompatibility complex

is a kind of accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection

Derived forms adjective categorial₁, adjective categoric₁, adjective categorical₁, verb categorize₁

category(n = noun.cognition) Array - a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme; Array

has particulars: form, kind, sort, variety, pigeonhole, rubric, way

Derived forms adjective categorial₁, adjective categorical₁, verb categorize₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

category, n. [L. categoria, Gr. , fr. to accuse, affirm, predicate; down, against + to harrangue, assert, fr. assembly.].

One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament. [1913 Webster]
"The categories or predicaments -- the former a Greek word, the latter its literal translation in the Latin language -- were intended by Aristotle and his followers as an enumeration of all things capable of being named; an enumeration by the summa genera i.e., the most extensive classes into which things could be distributed." [1913 Webster]
Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category. [1913 Webster]
"There is in modern literature a whole class of writers standing within the same category." [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

category, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a class or division.
2 Philos. a one of a possibly exhaustive set of classes among which all things might be distributed. b one of the a priori conceptions applied by the mind to sense-impressions. c any relatively fundamental philosophical concept.

Derivative

categorial adj.

Etymology

F cat{eacute}gorie or LL categoria f. Gk kategoria statement f. kategoros accuser

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State

N state, condition, category, estate, lot, ease, trim, mood, pickle, plight, temper, aspect, dilemma, pass, predicament, constitution, habitude, diathesis, frame, fabric, stamp, set, fit, mold, mould, mode, modality, schesis, form, tone, tenor, turn, trim, guise, fashion, light, complexion, style, character, conditional, modal, formal, structural, organic, conditionally, as the matter stands, as things are, such being the case.

Quantity

N quantity, magnitude, size, amplitude, magnitude, mass, amount, sum, quantum, measure, substance, strength, force, mathematics, mathesis, category, general conception, universal predicament, armful, handful, mouthful, spoonful, capful, stock, batch, lot, dose, yaffle, quantitative, some, any, aught, more or less, a few, to the tune of, all of, a full, the sum of, fully, exactly, precisely.

Class

N class, division, category, categorema, head, order, section, department, subdepartment, province, domain, kind, sort, genus, species, variety, family, order, kingdom, race, tribe, caste, sept, clan, breed, type, subtype, kit, sect, set, subset, assortment, feather, kidney, suit, range, gender, sex, kin, manner, description, denomination, designation, rubric, character, stamp predicament, indication, particularization, selection, specification, similarity.

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