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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A specifically defined division in a system of classification; a class.
  • n. A general class of ideas, terms, or things that mark divisions or coordinations within a conceptual scheme, especially:
  • n. Aristotle's modes of objective being, such as quality, quantity, or relation, that are inherent in everything.
  • n. Kant's modes of subjective understanding, such as singularity, universality, or particularity, that organize perceptions into knowledge.
  • n. A basic logical type of philosophical conception in post-Kantian philosophy.
  • n. Linguistics A classificatory structural unit or property of a language, such as a part of speech, verb phrase, or object.
  • n. Linguistics A specific grammatical defining property of a linguistic unit or class, such as number or gender in the noun and tense or voice in the verb.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
  • n. A collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows between them, such that every object has an identity arrow, and such that arrow composition is associative.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament.
  • n. Class; also, state, condition, or predicament.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In logic, a highest notion, especially one derived from the logical analysis of the forms of proposition.
  • n. A summum genus, or widest class.
  • n. Any very wide and distinctive class; any comprehensive division or class of persons or things.
  • n.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme
  • n. a collection of things sharing a common attribute
  • Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    predicament    class    phylum    order    kingdom    tribe    family    genus    type    group   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    concept    requirement    definition    type    strategy    classification    list    division    status    class