Category

Definition of category:

a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme
One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament.
Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category.
A class in any general classification.
A class or order.
An order or a class; a summum genus, or highest class, that is, a class which comes under no higher, of which classes Aristotle reckoned up ten; in the philosophy of Kant, one of the twelve primitive forms of thought contributed by the understanding independently of experience.

Usage examples for category

He now appeared older, respectable, but not successful, which fitted neatly into the greatest category on Venus- or anywhere, for that matter. Tangle Hold by F. L. Wallace
Finally, in the category of Sacred Art come two well- known pictures, both in public galleries, and both accredited to Giorgione. Giorgione by Herbert Cook
Nina divined better than she knew, when she put the little Russian and Carpazzi in the same category. The Title Market by Emily Post

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