category
Syllables: cat·e·go·ryUK/ˈkæt.ɪ.ɡ(ə.)ɹi//ˈkæt.ɪˌɡoɹ.i/
category noun: a group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
Noun
category (plural categories)
- A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
- This steep and dangerous climb belongs to the most difficult category.
- I wouldn’t put this book in the same category as the author’s first novel.
- 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.
- One well-known category has sets as objects and functions as arrows.
- Just as a monoid consists of an underlying set with a binary operation "on top of it" which is closed, associative and with an identity, a category consists of an underlying digraph with an arrow composition operation "on top of it" which is transitively closed, associative, and with an identity at...
category meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
category in Hindi
- group
- वर्ग varg, श्रेणी śreṇī
category in Tamil
- பகுப்பு
category in Marathi
- group
- वर्ग varga
category in Urdu
- group
- زُمْرَہ zumra
More languagesFewer languages
- category in Bengali
- বিষয়শ্রেণী biśoẏosreni
- category in Telugu
- వర్గము vargamu
- category in Malayalam
- വർഗ്ഗം vaṟggaṁ, തരം taraṁ
- category in Kannada
- ಬಗೆ bage, ಗುಂಪು gumpu
- category in Gujarati
- વર્ગ varg
- category in Arabic
- فِئَة fiʔa
- category in Thai
- ประเภท bprà-pêet, หมวดหมู่ mùuat-mùu
- category in Vietnamese
- thể loại
- category in Myanmar
- မျိုး myui:, ဂိုဏ်း guin:
- Kashmiri
- وَرگ varg
Examples of category in a sentence
- The new medical portal has dozens of topical categories containing links to hundreds of sites.
- I felt a frisson just as they were about to announce the winner in my category.
- The category was a catch-all for items that were not filed elsewhere.
Synonyms of category
12 more synonymsFewer synonyms
Forms of category
| plural | categories |
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Origin of category
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.
Words formed from category
- abelian category
- additive category
- anticategory
- balanced category
- bicartesian closed category
- bicategory
- Cartesian closed category
- categorification
- categorify
- categorisation
- categorist
- category error
- category five
- category fraud
- category killer
- categoryless
- category mistake
- category-mistake
- category reference
- category theory
- child category
- cocategory
- comma category
- coslice category
- discrete category
- free category
- functor category
- Goguen category
- grammatical category
- intercategory
- intracategory
- Kleisli category
- lexical category
- macrocategory
- microcategory
- monoidal category
- multicategory
- overcategory
- perceptual category
- preabelian category
- pre-abelian category
- preadditive category
- pre-additive category
- precategory
- semicategory
- slice category
- small category
- subcategory
- supercategory
- tetracategory
- tricategory
Phrases with category
Questions about category
- What does category mean?
- Category means a group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
- What is category in Hindi?
- Category in Hindi is वर्ग (varg), श्रेणी (śreṇī). See Category meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is category?
- Category is a noun.
- How do you pronounce category?
- Category is pronounced /ˈkæt.ɪ.ɡ(ə.)ɹi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of category?
- The plural of category is categories.
Words near category in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: category (page history and authors); category (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); వర్గము (Telugu) (page history and authors); ಗುಂಪು (Kannada) (page history and authors); વર્ગ (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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