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   Cat·e·go·ry

   /ˈkadəˌɡôrē/

   

   noun

   • 1. a class or division of people or things regarded as having particular shared characteristics: "five categories of intelligence"
   • 2. one of a possibly exhaustive set of classes among which all things might be distributed.
   • ▪ one of the a priori conceptions applied by the mind to sense impressions.

   Word Origin late Middle English (in category (sense 2)): from French catégorie or late Latin categoria, from Greek katēgoria ‘statement, accusation’, from katēgoros ‘accuser’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. categorial adjective

   Scrabble Points: 14

   • C

     3

   • A

     1

   • T

     1

   • E

     1

   • G

     2

   • O

     1

   • R

     1

   • Y

     4

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