categories
- 1Plural of category.
The survey grouped respondents into four broad categories of income.
Tax law treats these expenses as belonging to distinct categories.
Note
A regular plural, made by the spelling rule that turns a final consonant-plus-y into -ies. It serves both lives of the singular: the everyday groups that items are sorted into by shared traits or set criteria, and the mathematician's categories, which are collections of objects joined by composable arrows. In a mathematics text, the plural usually means several such structures rather than several bins for sorting.
categories is a form of category
category, noun: A named or numbered group to which items are assigned based on shared features or set criteria. Full entry
- Forms
- categorycategories plural
- Spelling
- category → categories: change y to i, add -es
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