category
The definition of a category is any sort of division or class.
(noun)An example of category is food that is made from grains.
See category in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun pl. categories
- a class or division in a scheme of classification
- 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
See category in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun pl. cat·e·go·ries
- A specifically defined division in a system of classification; a class.
- A general class of ideas, terms, or things that mark divisions or coordinations within a conceptual scheme, especially:a. Aristotle's modes of objective being, such as quality, quantity, or relation, that are inherent in everything.b. Kant's modes of subjective understanding, such as singularity, universality, or particularity, that organize perceptions into knowledge.c. A basic logical type of philosophical conception in post-Kantian philosophy.
- Linguistics a. A classificatory structural unit or property of a language, such as a part of speech, verb phrase, or object.b. A specific grammatical defining property of a linguistic unit or class, such as number or gender in the noun and tense or voice in the verb.
Origin:
Origin: French catégorie
Origin: , from Old French
Origin: , from Late Latin catēgoria, class of predicables
Origin: , from Greek katēgoriā, accusation, charge
Origin: , from katēgorein, to accuse, predicate
Origin: : kat-, kata-, down, against; see cata-
Origin: + agoreuein, ēgor-, to speak in public (from agorā, marketplace, assembly; see ger- in Indo-European roots)
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