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hors catégorie

hors catégorie is the alternative form of hors categorie.

Meaning of hors categorie

Noun

hors categorie (plural hors categories)

  1. The toughest category of climbs, tougher than category 1. One of six categories of climbs, HC, 1, 2, 3, 4, and not classified; not classified being the easiest.
    • Ahead of me was the legendary Col de Tourmalet—at 2115m, the highest road pass in the Pyrenees and a stalwart in Tour de France history. It's even classed as an hors-catégorie (out-of-category) climb because it's such a killer. This was a mountain that even professional cyclists are wary of.2005 June 28, Max Wooldridge, “Stages fright”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    HC, S

Forms of hors catégorie

pluralhors catégories

Questions about hors catégorie

What is hors catégorie the alternative form of?
Hors catégorie is the alternative form of hors categorie.

Words near hors catégorie in the dictionary

  1. Horrs
  2. horry
  3. Horry County
  4. hors categorie
  5. hors categories
  6. hors catégorie
  7. hors catégories
  8. hors d'oeuvre
  9. hors d'oeuvres
  10. hors d'œuvre
  11. hors de combat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hors catégorie (page history and authors); hors categorie (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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