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category cat·e·go·ry

Spelling: [kat-i-gawr-ee, -gohr-ee]

IPA: /ˈkæt ɪˌgɔr i, -ˌgoʊr i/

Category is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 344 anagrams from letters in category (acegorty).

Definitions for category

noun

1. any general or comprehensive division; a class.
2. a classificatory division in any field of knowledge, as a phylum or any of its subdivisions in biology.
3. Metaphysics. (in Aristotelian philosophy) any of the fundamental modes of existence, such as substance, quality, and quantity, as determined by analysis of the different possible kinds of predication. (in Kantian philosophy) any of the fundamental principles of the understanding, as the principle of causation. any classification of terms that is ultimate and not susceptible to further analysis.
4. categories, Also called Guggenheim. (used with a singular verb) a game in which a key word and a list of categories, as dogs, automobiles, or rivers, are selected, and in which each player writes down a word in each category that begins with each of the letters of the key word, the player writing down the most words within a time limit being declared the winner.
5. Mathematics. a type of mathematical object, as a set, group, or metric space, together with a set of mappings from such an object to other objects of the same type.
6. Grammar. part of speech.

Origin of category

1580-90; Late Latin catēgoria Greek katēgoría “accusation” (in logic, “predication”), from katēgoreîn “to accuse, affirm,” equivalent to kata- cata- + agoreúein “to s

Examples for category

Many states and localities provide services to families who fall under the poverty line and also in the “near-poor” category.

Also there is a touch of irony in them, which takes them out of the category of sophistry.

Such changes do not come under the category of profiteering.

Whether the Army listed Schwend in this category out of ignorance or for other reasons is not known.

It must be noted that in this category of non-writers there are at least three who are characters in the TV series I, Claudius.

Most of us in that category can remember the thrill of seeing our words appear in public for the first time.

D--n the rogues; I thought at one time they had me in a category!

The second point in this category is own cousin to the above.

They belong entirely to the category of what is wise to realize good.

That goes without saying, as no one woman could aptly represent everyone who identifies within that category.