categories

nounclassification, type

Synonyms for categories

noun classification, type

Antonyms for categories

whole

Word Origin & History

1580s, from Middle French catégorie, from Late Latin categoria, from Greek kategoria "accusation, prediction, category," verbal noun from kategorein "to speak against; to accuse, assert, predicate," from kata "down to" (or perhaps "against;" see cata-) + agoreuein "to harangue, to declaim (in the assembly)," from agora "public assembly" (see agora). Original sense of "accuse" weakened to "assert, name" by the time Aristotle applied kategoria to his 10 classes of things that can be named.

Example Sentences for categories

The first of Plato's categories or elements is the infinite.

We do not confuse the parts of speech with the categories of Logic.

If you mean to include me in either of these categories, sir, will you please to say which?

Hence I have here and there permitted myself liberties with these categories.

These were the two categories that comprehended all her theory.

The convicts are divided into three categories: good, middling, and bad.

The observer's nothing without his categories, his types and varieties.

The Army, also troubled by the categories, requested they be defined.

Now, I take as my creed the fruitful dictum: Think in other categories.

Quality is one of the nine categories of accident, and God has no accidents.