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category - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'category' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Category [ n.]
- 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.

Meaning of 'category' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . category [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a collection of things sharing a common attribute
Example in sentence:
  • there are two classes of detergents