Noun
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.
Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIn our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it. Louis Pasteur
Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything. Steve Wozniak
If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say that they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politician stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like. Randall Jarrell
Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion. Alberto Manguel
Possessions of this world have not been for the exclusive use by such or such category of individuals. African Spir