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g-uhn-hahym, goo-guhn-] 
| Daniel, 1856–1930, U.S. industrialist and philanthropist. |
[goog-uhn-hahym, goo-guhn-] [kat-i-gawr-ee, -gohr-ee] | 1. | any general or comprehensive division; a class. |
| 2. | a classificatory division in any field of knowledge, as a phylum or any of its subdivisions in biology. |
| 3. | Metaphysics.
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| 4. | categories. Also called Guggenheim. (used with a singular verb) a game in which a key word and a list of categories, as dogs, automobiles, or rivers, are selected, and in which each player writes down a word in each category that begins with each of the letters of the key word, the player writing down the most words within a time limit being declared the winner. |
| 5. | Mathematics. a type of mathematical object, as a set, group, or metric space, together with a set of mappings from such an object to other objects of the same type. |
| 6. | Grammar. part of speech. |
gor(os) accuser, affirmer (katēgor(eîn) to accuse, affirm, lit., speak publicly against, equiv. to kata- cata- + -agoreîn to speak before the agora + -os n. suffix) + -ia -y 3 | Gug·gen·heim (gŏŏg'ən-hīm') Family of American industrialists and philanthropists, including Meyer (1828-1905), who amassed the family fortune in the copper industry. His sons Daniel (1856-1930) and Simon (1867-1941) and his granddaughter Marguerite (1898-1979), known as "Peggy," were patrons of the arts. The family endowed the Guggenheim Museum of Modern Art in New York City (1959). |