Use stoa in a sentence. pl. stoâ²ae or stoâ²as. a portico, as in ancient Greece, having a wall on one side and pillars on the other. Origin of stoa.
Definition of classify for English Language Learners. : 1  to arrange (people or things) into groups based on ways that they are alike. : 2  to consider (someone or something) as belonging to a particular group.
Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition: 1  categorization, categorisation, classification, compartmentalization, compartmentalisation, assortment(noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type.