category
category is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category. There is in modern literature a whole class of writers standing within the same category. De Quincey.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- appearance
- are
- aspect
- being
- case
- character
- come
- complexion
- condition
- conditional
- conditionally
- constitution
- diathesis
- dilemma
- ease
- enjoy
- estate
- fabric
- fare
- fashion
- fit
- footing
- form
- formal
- frame
- guise
- habitude
- labor
- light
- lot
- matter
- modal
- modality
- mode
- mold
- mood
- mould
- organic
- pass
- pickle
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Definition-first questions whose answer is category.
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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