English Explanatory Dictionary

collection

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together.
  2. A set of pitch classes used by a composer.
  3. The activity of collecting.
  4. A set of sets; used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a set.
  5. A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
  6. Debt collection.
  7. The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
  8. The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
  9. A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
  10. The quality of being collected; calm composure.

Pronunciation

/kəˈlɛkʃən/ en-us-collection.ogg

Word forms

collection collections

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”). Equivalen to collect + -ion.

Derived words

biocollection capped collection collection agency collectional collection box collectioner collectionitis collection mailbox collection plate collection-plate collection procedure collection society cryocollection data collection e-collection fog collection garbage collection grievance collection injustice collection megacollection microcollection minicollection money collection multicollection noncollection overcollection precollection recollection selective collection stamp collection subcollection take up a collection tax collection type collection undercollection wound collection

Translations

Armenian: հավաքածու Armenian: ժողովածու Bulgarian: сби́рка Bulgarian: коле́кция Danish: samling Finnish: kokoelma French: collection Galician: colección German: Sammlung German: Kollektion German: Menge Hungarian: gyűjtemény Irish: bailiúchán Italian: raccolta Italian: collezione Latvian: krājums Latvian: kolekcija Norwegian Bokmål: samling Norwegian Bokmål: kolleksjon Norwegian Nynorsk: samling Norwegian Nynorsk: kolleksjon Persian: کلکسیون Portuguese: coleção Russian: колле́кция Russian: набо́р Scottish Gaelic: cruinneachadh Serbo-Croatian: зби̑рка Serbo-Croatian: колѐкција Serbo-Croatian: zbȋrka Serbo-Croatian: kolèkcija Spanish: colección Spanish: conjunto Swedish: samling Telugu: సమూహము Vietnamese: tập hợp Vietnamese: tập sưu tầm Volapük: konlet
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