category

noun/ˈkætəˌɡɔri/

Frequency rank: #1,829 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

A group of people or things sharing particular features.

Illustration for the English word “category”

Example sentence

The items were sorted into the correct category based on their type.

Synonyms & related words

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