| category | | |
| n. (group) | 1. category, class, family | a collection of things sharing a common attribute.; "there are two classes of detergents" |
| ~ grammatical category, syntactic category | (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties. |
| ~ substitution class, paradigm | the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another). |
| ~ aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage | several things grouped together or considered as a whole. |
| ~ brass family | (music) the family of brass instruments. |
| ~ violin family | (music) the family of bowed stringed instruments. |
| ~ woodwind family | (music) the family of woodwind instruments. |
| ~ stamp | a type or class.; "more men of his stamp are needed" |
| ~ sex | either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided.; "the war between the sexes" |
| ~ declension | a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms.; "the first declension in Latin" |
| ~ conjugation | a class of verbs having the same inflectional forms. |
| ~ denomination | a class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers or measures or weights or money.; "he flashed a fistful of bills of large denominations" |
| ~ histocompatibility complex | a family of fifty or more genes on the sixth human chromosome that code for proteins on the surfaces of cells and that play a role in the immune response. |
| ~ superphylum | (biology) a taxonomic group ranking between a phylum and below a class or subclass. |
| n. (cognition) | 2. category | a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme. |
| ~ concept, conception, construct | an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances. |
| ~ kind, sort, form, variety | a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality.; "sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there?" |
| ~ pigeonhole | a specific (often simplistic) category. |
| ~ rubric | category name.; "it is usually discussed under the rubric of `functional obesity'" |
| ~ way | a general category of things; used in the expression `in the way of'.; "they didn't have much in the way of clothing" |
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