collection
English
Etymology
From Middle English colleccioun, collection, from Old French collection, from Latin collēctiō, collēctiōnem, from collēctus, from colligō (“collect together”), composed of con- + legō (“bring together, gather, collect”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather, collect”).
Pronunciation
Noun
collection (countable and uncountable, plural collections)
- A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:
- Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.
- 1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences
- collections of moisture
- 1887, Robert Bartholow, A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine
- a purulent collection
- The attic contains a remarkable collection of antiques, oddities, and random junk.
- The asteroid belt consists of a collection of dust, rubble, and minor planets.
- Multiple related objects associated as a group.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
- He has a superb coin collection.
- The activity of collecting.
- Collection of trash will occur every Thursday.
- (topology, mathematical analysis) A set of sets.
- A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
- (law) Debt collection.
- (obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
- 1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, book:
- We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines.
- (UK) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
- (Oxford University, usually in the plural) A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
- The quality of being collected; calm composure.
Derived terms
Terms derived from collection
Translations
set of items
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activity of collecting
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topology, analysis: set of sets
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gathering of money for charitable or other purposes
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debt collection — see debt collection
act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts
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jurisdiction of a collector of excise
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set of college exams
the quality of being collected; calm composure
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French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin collēctiō, collēctiōnem. Cf. also Old French quieuçon, which may be inherited from the same source, and the modern cueillaison, which was probably formed analogically.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ.lɛk.sjɔ̃/
Audio (France, Paris): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔ̃
- Homophone: collections
- Hyphenation: col‧lec‧tion
Noun
collection f (plural collections)
Derived terms
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Descendants
- → Romanian: colecție
- → Turkish: koleksiyon
Further reading
- “collection”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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