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Word: Category
Speech Type: Noun
late Middle English (in category (sense 2)): from French catégorie or late Latin categoria, from Greek katēgoria ‘statement, accusation’, from katēgoros ‘accuser’
ˈkatɪɡ(ə)ri
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
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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