category
Meaning of category
noun
- a class or division of people or things regarded as having particular shared characteristics.
the various categories of research
- each of a possibly exhaustive set of classes among which all things might be distributed.
late Middle English (in category (sense 2)): from French catégorie or late Latin categoria, from Greek katēgoria ‘statement, accusation’, from katēgoros ‘accuser’.
Information about category
- It is a name.
- The plural form of category is: categories.
- Languages in which category is used:
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Hyphenation of category
cat-e-gory
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- category is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
category synonyms
Meaning class:
Meaning a category into which something is put:
Meaning the action or process of placing into classes or groups:
Meaning a number of people or things that are located, gathered, or classed together:
Meaning a set of associated people acting together, especially within a larger organization:
Meaning a category of people or things that are similar or fall between specified limits:
Meaning the upper part of the human body, or the front or upper part of the body of an animal, typically separated from the rest of the body by a neck, and containing the brain, mouth, and sense organs:
Meaning a division of a subject; a class or category:
Meaning a number of connected items or names written or printed consecutively, typically one below the other:
Meaning a list or catalogue:
Meaning put, lay, or stand (something) in a specified place or position:
Meaning a category of people or things having common characteristics:
Meaning a category of things or people with a common feature; a type:
Meaning a group of people or things having similar characteristics:
Meaning a thing which differs in some way from others of the same general class or sort; a type:
Meaning a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding. The species is the principal natural taxonomic unit, ranking below a genus and denoted by a :
Meaning a style or category of art, music, or literature:
Meaning a stock of animals or plants within a species having a distinctive appearance and typically having been developed by deliberate selection:
Meaning a particular procedure by which something is done; a manner or way:
Meaning a particular type or kind of something:
Meaning the manufacturer or trade name of a product:
Meaning a three-dimensional representation of a person or thing or of a proposed structure, typically on a smaller scale than the original:
Meaning a particular class or type of person or thing:
Meaning an object made by shaping molten metal or similar material in a mould:
Meaning a type of person or thing similar to one already referred to:
Meaning each of a pair of organs in the abdominal cavity of mammals, birds, and reptiles, that excrete urine:
Meaning a particular level of rank, quality, proficiency, or value:
Meaning arrange in or allocate to grades; classify or sort:
Meaning a social class:
Meaning a position in the hierarchy of the armed forces:
Meaning relative social or professional position; standing:
Meaning each of the parts into which something is divided:
Meaning any of the more or less distinct parts into which something is or may be divided or from which it is made up:
Meaning a division of a large organization such as a government, university, or business, dealing with a specific area of activity:
Meaning an area in which something can be considered in isolation from other things:
Meaning a category, typically an overly restrictive one, to which someone or something is assigned:
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Words that rhyme with category
gory, matagory, phantasmagory, Gregory, allegory, beaugregory, gregory, subcategory, tautegory, Greggory, amphigory
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