categories

Variant of category

category definition

cat·ego·ry (kat′ə gôr′ē)

noun pl. categories -·ries

  1. a class or division in a scheme of classification
  2. Logic any of the various basic concepts into which all knowledge can be classified

Etymology: LL categoria < Gr katēgoria < katēgorein, to accuse, assert, predicate < kata-, down, against + agoreuein, to declaim, address an assembly < agora, agora

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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