'Category' definitions:
Definition of 'category'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Category'
From: GCIDE
- Category \Cat"e*go*ry\, n.; pl. Categories. [L. categoria, Gr. ?, fr. ? to accuse, affirm, predicate; ? down, against + ? to harrangue, assert, fr. ? assembly.]
- 1. (Logic.) One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament. [1913 Webster]
- The categories or predicaments -- the former a Greek word, the latter its literal translation in the Latin language -- were intended by Aristotle and his followers as an enumeration of all things capable of being named; an enumeration by the summa genera i.e., the most extensive classes into which things could be distributed. --J. S. Mill. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category. [1913 Webster]
- There is in modern literature a whole class of writers standing within the same category. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'category'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- area,
- blood,
- bracket,
- branch,
- caste,
- clan,
- class,
- classification,
- department,
- division,
- estate,
- grade,
- group,
- grouping,
- head,
- heading,
- kin,
- kind,
- label,
- league,
- level,
- list,
- listing,
- order,
- pigeonhole,
- position,
- predicament,
- race,
- rank,
- ranking,
- rating,
- rubric,
- section,
- sector,
- sept,
- set,
- sort,
- sphere,
- station,
- status,
- strain,
- stratum,
- subdivision,
- subgroup,
- suborder,
- tier,
- title,
- type,
- variety