categories

Variant of category

noun pl. categories

  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

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

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