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sub-category

sub-category is the alternative spelling of subcategory.

Meaning of subcategory

Noun

subcategory (plural subcategories)

  1. With respect to a given category; a narrower category.
    • The moment subcategories of the overall population are denied rights, the rights of all are threatened.2005 August 8, Leslie Feinberg, “1952 court victory against anti-gay charges”, in Workers World
  2. A subclass of a category which is itself a category, whose arrows are a restriction of the arrows of the parent category, and whose composition rule is a restriction of the parent category's.

Forms of sub-category

pluralsub-categories

Questions about sub-category

What is sub-category the alternative spelling of?
Sub-category is the alternative spelling of subcategory.

Words near sub-category in the dictionary

  1. sub-brown dwarf
  2. sub-brown dwarfs
  3. sub-Byzantine
  4. Sub-Carpathian Rus
  5. sub-categories
  6. sub-category
  7. sub-cheese
  8. sub-clan
  9. sub-clans
  10. sub-class
  11. sub-classes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sub-category (page history and authors); subcategory (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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