CATEGORIES | English Meaning, Definition, and Pronunciation

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Word: Category

Speech Type: Noun

Etymology:

late Middle English (in category (sense 2)): from French catégorie or late Latin categoria, from Greek katēgoria ‘statement, accusation’, from katēgoros ‘accuser’

Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling: ˈkatɪɡ(ə)ri
Dialects: British English
Definition:

a class or division of people or things regarded as having particular shared characteristics

Short Definition:

class or division of people or things regarded as having particular shared characteristics

Examples:
  • the various categories of research
Definition:

each of a possibly exhaustive set of classes among which all things might be distributed.

Short Definition:

each of possibly exhaustive set of classes among which all things might be distributed

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