[ˈkatɪɡ(ə)ri], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a class or division of people or things regarded as having particular shared characteristics
(e.g: the various categories of research)

- each of a possibly exhaustive set of classes among which all things might be distributed


Phrases:

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