English Explanatory Dictionary

collation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Bringing together.
  2. The act of bringing things together and comparing them; comparison.
  3. The act of collating pages or sheets of a book, or from printing etc.
  4. A collection, a gathering.
  5. Discussion, light meal.
  6. A conference or consultation.
  7. The Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium by John Cassian, an important ecclesiastical work. (Now usually with capital initial.)
  8. A reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monasteries.
  9. The light meal taken by monks after the reading service mentioned above.
  10. Any light meal or snack.
  11. The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
  12. The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance.
verb
  1. To partake of a collation, or light meal.

Pronunciation

/kəˈleɪʃən/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-collation.wav En-us-collation.oga

Word forms

collation collations collationing collationed

Etymology

From Middle English collacioun, collation, from Old French collation, from Latin collatiō, from the participle stem of cōnferō (“to bring together”).

Synonyms

hotchpot

Related words

collocation co-locating co-location

Derived words

cold collation collational collationer miscollation recollation

Translations

Hungarian: összevetés Hungarian: egybevetés Hungarian: leválogatás Hungarian: összehordás Hungarian: uzsonna Māori: whakahiatotanga Spanish: colación Ottoman Turkish: تطبیق Catalan: col·lació Greek: κολατσιό Irish: colláid Irish: scroid Portuguese: pequeno almoço
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