Category Separate Students Main Noun Bre ˈkætəɡəri ˈkætəɡɔːri

• students over 25 fall into a different category.
• the results can be divided into three main categories.
• flutes form a separate category of wind instruments.
• he competed in the youngest age category.

category

1. a group of people or things with particular features in common
• synonym class
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• Students over 25 fall into a different category.
• The results can be divided into three main categories.

Extra Examples

• Flutes form a separate category of wind instruments.
• He competed in the youngest age category.
• Intravenous drug users are in a high-risk category for hepatitis C.
• Most of his ratings were in the highest category.
• The cities investigated fell into two broad categories.
• There’s a separate category for children.
• We have created a special category for part-time workers.
• a higher category of prison
• categories based on ethnic origin
• the highest category of sexual assault
• It is not useful to divide schoolchildren into separate categories.
• Students over 25 are included in a different category.
• There are two main categories of homicide according to the law.
• This case does not come within any of our established categories.
• We cannot exclude whole categories of people from the legislation.
• What subject category do the documents belong to?

Word Origin

• late Middle English (in the philosophical sense): from French catégorie or late Latin categoria, from Greek katēgoria ‘statement, accusation’, from katēgoros ‘accuser’.