category

Noun
  1. A collection of things sharing a common attribute (synset 108014145)
    "there are two classes of detergents"
    is a type of: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection - several things grouped together or considered as a whole
    subtypes:
    • grammatical category, syntactic category - (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
    • 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)
    • brass family - (music) the family of brass instruments
    • violin family - (music) the family of bowed stringed instruments
    • woodwind family - (music) the family of woodwind instruments
    • stamp - a type or class
    • sex - either of the two categories (male or female) into which most organisms are divided
    • declension - a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms
    • conjugation - a class of verbs having the same inflectional forms
    • denomination - a class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers or measures or weights or money
    • 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
    member holonym: superphylum - (biology) a taxonomic group ranking between a phylum and below a class or subclass
    same as: class, family
  2. A general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme (synset 105847274)
    is a type of: concept, conception, construct - an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances
    subtypes:
    • form, kind, sort, variety - a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
    • pigeonhole - a specific (often simplistic) category
    • rubric - category name
    • way - a general category of things; used in the expression `in the way of'

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