category
(noun) a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme
class, category, family
(noun) a collection of things sharing a common attribute; “there are two classes of detergents”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
category (plural categories)
A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
(mathematics) A collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows between them, such that every object has an identity arrow, and such that arrow composition is associative.
• (group to which items are assigned): class, family, genus, group, kingdom, order, phylum, race, tribe, type
• See also class
• conceptual category
• Eilenberg-Moore category
• Kleisli category
• macrocategory
• microcategory
• monoid
• partially ordered set
• perceptual category
• subcategory
• supercategory
Source: Wiktionary
Cat"e*go*ry, n.; pl. Categories Etym: [L. categoria, Gr.
1. (Logic.)
Definition: 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. The categories or predicaments -- the former a Greek word, the latter its literal translation in the Latin language -- were intended by Aristotle and his followers as an enumeration of all things capable of being named; an enumeration by the summa genera i.e., the most extensive classes into which things could be distributed. J. S. Mill.
2. Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category. There is in modern literature a whole class of writers standing within the same category. De Quincey.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 May 2025
(adjective) worth having or seeking or achieving; “a desirable job”; “computer with many desirable features”; “a desirable outcome”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
