Plural of category
regular plural
The plural of category is categories.
Forms of category
| Singular | category /ˈkæt.ɪ.ɡ(ə.)ɹi/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | categories /ˈkæt.ɪ.ɡ(ə.)ɹiz/ |
| Countable | countable |
Categories in a sentence
- The traditional way of describing the similarities and differences between constituents is to say that they belong to categories of various types.1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 51
- The new medical portal has dozens of topical categories containing links to hundreds of sites.From the entry portal
- Using a credits warp may be allowed in an any% speedrun, but not in other categories.From the entry credits warp
- The EmployeeCategory table is a junction table associating each employee with zero or more categories.From the entry junction table
- A binary statistical distribution has only two categories.From the entry binary
Meaning of category
- noun A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
- noun 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.
Questions about the plural of category
- What is the plural of category?
- The plural of category is categories.
- Is category countable?
- Category is a countable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: category (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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