collection

Meaning of collection

noun
  1. A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
    The asteroid belt consists of a collection of dust, rubble, and minor planets.
  2. Multiple related objects associated as a group.
    He has a superb coin collection.
  3. The activity of collecting.
    Collection of trash will occur every Thursday.
  4. A set of sets.
  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. (in the plural, Oxford University) A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
  10. The quality of being collected; calm composure.

Information about collection

Hyphenation of collection

col-lec-tion

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • collection is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

collection synonyms

Meaning aggregation:

aggregation, accumulation, assemblage

Meaning compendium:

compendium

Meaning solicitation:

solicitation, appeal, ingathering

Meaning collecting:

collecting, assembling, aggregation

Translation of collection

Words that rhyme with collection

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