category

Meaning

1. A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
2. A collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows between them, such that every object has an identity arrow, and such that arrow composition is associative.

Concepts

category

class

kind

type

group

sort

variety

order

division

rubric

classification

grade

rank

branch

species

family

rating

column

section

denomination

set

heading

department

field

bracket

nomination

rate

range

form

part

grouping

standard

capitulary

notion

entity

position

company

flock

herd

pair

party

sect

accusation

charge

complaint

rap

neatness

orderliness

trim

taxon

schema category

genus

realm

subsumption

gang-up

organize into groups

scale

categorization

caliber

caste

categorisation

classroom

social rank

year

assortment

sorting

genre

style

ranking

cluster

condition

crisis

predicament

belong to

direct

instruct

subordinate to

race

manner

Hyphenated as

cat‧e‧go‧ry

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkætəˌɡɔɹi/

Etymology

Late Middle English, borrowed from French catégorie, from Middle French categorie, from Late Latin catēgoria (“class of predicables”), from Ancient Greek κατηγορία (katēgoría, “head of predicables”). Doublet of categoria.