collection
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowing from Old French collection, from Latin collēctiō, collēctiōnem.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
collection (plural collections)
- A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, 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.
- William Whewell
- Collections of moisture.
- Dunglison
- A purulent collection.
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The attic contains a remarkable collection of antiques, oddities, and random junk.
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The asteroid belt consists of a collection of dust, rubble, and minor planets.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii
- Multiple related objects associated as a group.
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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.
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He has a superb coin collection.
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- The activity of collecting.
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Collection of trash will occur every Thursday.
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- (topology, analysis) A set of sets.
- A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
- (obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
- John Milton
- We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines.
- John Milton
- (Britain) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
- (in the plural, Britain, Oxford University slang) A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from collection
Translations[edit]
set of items
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activity of collecting
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gathering of money for charitable or other purposes
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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
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French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowing 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[edit]
- IPA(key): /kɔ.lɛk.sjɔ̃/
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Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Rhymes: -sjɔ̃
- Homophone: collections
- Hyphenation: co‧llec‧tion
Noun[edit]
collection f (plural collections)
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Further reading[edit]
- “collection” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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