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Learn to pronounce cat·e·go·ry

/ˈkadəˌɡôrē/
noun
  1. a class or division of people or things regarded as having particular shared characteristics.
    "five categories of intelligence"
    synonyms: 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
  2. one of a possibly exhaustive set of classes among which all things might be distributed.

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