category
noun
[ ˈkatəɡ(ə)ri ]
• a class or division of people or things regarded as having particular shared characteristics.
• "the various categories of research"
Similar:
class,
classification,
categorization,
group,
grouping,
bracket,
head,
heading,
list,
listing,
set,
type,
sort,
kind,
variety,
species,
genre,
breed,
style,
brand,
make,
model,
family,
stamp,
cast,
ilk,
kidney,
grade,
grading,
order,
rank,
status,
division,
section,
department,
compartment,
pigeonhole,
• each of a possibly exhaustive set of classes among which all things might be distributed.
Origin:
late Middle English (in category (sense 2)): from French catégorie or late Latin categoria, from Greek katēgoria ‘statement, accusation’, from katēgoros ‘accuser’.
