Definition of category
Nouns
a collection of things sharing a common attribute
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grammatical category, syntactic category
(grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
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case, grammatical case
nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence
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form class, part of speech, word class
one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context
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number
the grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural)
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person
a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party
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gender, grammatical gender
a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness
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tense
a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
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participant role, semantic role
(linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause
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paradigm, substitution class
the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another)
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brass family
(music) the family of brass instruments
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violin family
(music) the family of bowed stringed instruments
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woodwind family
(music) the family of woodwind instruments
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stamp
a type or class
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sex
either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided
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declension
a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms
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conjugation
a class of verbs having the same inflectional forms
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denomination
a class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers or measures or weights or money
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histocompatibility complex
a family of fifty or more genes on the sixth human chromosome that code for proteins on the surfaces of cells and that play a role in the immune response
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accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection
several things grouped together or considered as a whole
a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme
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form, kind, sort, variety
a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
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description
sort or variety
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type
a subdivision of a particular kind of thing
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antitype
an opposite or contrasting type
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art form
(architecture) a form of artistic expression (such as writing or painting or architecture)
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style
a particular kind (as to appearance)
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flavor, flavour
(physics) the six kinds of quarks
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color, colour
(physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
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species
a specific kind of something
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genus
a general kind of something
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brand, make
a recognizable kind
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genre
a kind of literary or artistic work
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ilk, like
a kind of person
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manner
a kind
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model
a type of product
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stripe
a kind or category
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like, the like, the likes of
a similar kind
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pigeonhole
a specific (often simplistic) category
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rubric
category name
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way
a general category of things; used in the expression `in the way of'
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concept, conception, construct
an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances
Vocabulary Lists for category
Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun »(384 words)
- sand dollar
- petty bourgeoisie
- petit bourgeois
- peckerwood
- Yoruba
Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" Chapters 11-20 »(180 words)
Vocabulary study list for Harper Lee's "To Kill a...
- ambidextrous
- undulate
- leftovers
- viscous
- myopic
- archive
- archives
- bizarre
- brusque
- category
- fascinate
- exaggerate
- advertise
- criticize
- basically