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subcategories

subcategories is the plural 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.

Questions about subcategories

What is subcategories the plural of?
Subcategories is the plural of subcategory.

Words near subcategories in the dictionary

  1. subcatchment
  2. subcatchments
  3. subcategorial
  4. subcategorical
  5. subcategorically
  6. subcategories
  7. subcategorisable
  8. subcategorisand
  9. subcategorisands
  10. subcategorisation
  11. subcategorisations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: subcategories (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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