■ noun ( plural categories )
1》 a class or division of people or things having particular shared characteristics.
2》 Philosophy each of a possibly exhaustive set of classes among which all things might be distributed.
↘each of the a priori conceptions applied by the mind to sense impressions.
Derivatives
categorial adjective
Origin
ME: from Fr. catégorie or late L. categoria , from Gk katēgoria 'statement, accusation', from katēgoros 'accuser'.