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Words people most associate with “collection”:

  1. stamps,
  2. list,
  3. group,
  4. stamp,
  5. collect

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Noun (4 meanings)

1. several things grouped together or considered as a whole.

collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage

collection is a type of:
  • group, grouping (noun) - any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
types of collection:
  • Asia (noun) - the nations of the Asian continent collectively
  • Central America (noun) - the nations of Central America collectively
  • Europe (noun) - the nations of the European continent collectively
  • Free World (noun) - anti-communist countries collectively
  • Judaica (noun) - historical and literary materials relating to Judaism
  • North America (noun) - the nations of the North American continent collectively
  • Oort cloud (noun) - (astronomy) a hypothetical huge collection of comets orbiting the sun far beyond the orbit of Pluto
  • South America (noun) - the nations of the South American continent collectively
  • Third World (noun) - underdeveloped and developing countries of Asia and Africa and Latin America collectively
  • Victoriana (noun) - collection of materials of or characteristic of the Victorian era
  • agglomeration (noun) - a jumbled collection or mass
  • ana (noun) - a collection of anecdotes about a person or place
  • armamentarium (noun) - the collection of equipment and methods used in the practice of medicine
  • art collection (noun) - a collection of art works
  • assortment, mixture, mixed bag, miscellany, miscellanea, variety, salmagundi, smorgasbord, potpourri, motley (noun) - a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
  • aviation, air power (noun) - the aggregation of a country's military aircraft
  • backlog (noun) - an accumulation of jobs not done or materials not processed that are yet to be dealt with (especially unfilled customer orders for products or services)
  • batch, clutch (noun) - a collection of things or persons to be handled together
  • batch (noun) - all the loaves of bread baked at the same time
  • battery (noun) - a collection of related things intended for use together
  • biota, biology (noun) - all the plant and animal life of a particular region
  • block (noun) - a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit
  • book, rule book (noun) - a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made
  • book (noun) - a collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game
  • bottle collection (noun) - a collection of bottles
  • bunch, lot, caboodle (noun) - any collection in its entirety
  • class, category, family (noun) - a collection of things sharing a common attribute
  • coin collection (noun) - a collection of coins
  • collage (noun) - any collection of diverse things
  • combination (noun) - a collection of things that have been combined
  • congregation (noun) - an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together
  • content (noun) - everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something
  • convoy (noun) - a collection of merchant ships with an escort of warships
  • corpus (noun) - a collection of writings
  • crop (noun) - a collection of people or things appearing together
  • data, information (noun) - a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn
  • defense, defence, defense team, defense lawyers (noun) - the defendant and his legal advisors collectively
  • ensemble, tout ensemble (noun) - an assemblage of parts or details (as in a work of art) considered as forming a whole
  • exhibition, exposition, expo (noun) - a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display
  • fauna, zoology (noun) - all the animal life in a particular region or period
  • findings (noun) - a collection of tools and other articles used by an artisan to make jewelry or clothing or shoes
  • flagging (noun) - flagstones collectively
  • fleet (noun) - a group of warships organized as a tactical unit
  • fleet (noun) - group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership
  • fleet (noun) - group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership
  • flinders (noun) - bits and splinters and fragments
  • galaxy (noun) - a splendid assemblage (especially of famous people)
  • galaxy, extragalactic nebula (noun) - (astronomy) a collection of star systems
  • generally accepted accounting principles, GAAP (noun) - a collection of rules and procedures and conventions that define accepted accounting practice
  • gimmickry (noun) - a collection of gimmicks
  • hand, deal (noun) - the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time
  • herbarium (noun) - a collection of dried plants that are mounted and systematically classified for study
  • hit parade (noun) - a collection of the best or most popular people or items of a given kind
  • job lot (noun) - a miscellaneous collection of things sold together
  • kludge (noun) - a badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose (often used to refer to computing systems or software that has been badly put together)
  • law, jurisprudence (noun) - the collection of rules imposed by authority
  • library, program library, subroutine library (noun) - (computing) a collection of standard programs and subroutines that are stored and available for immediate use
  • library (noun) - a collection of literary documents or records kept for reference or borrowing
  • long suit (noun) - in a hand, the suit having the most cards
  • mail, post (noun) - any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered
  • mass (noun) - an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)
  • menagerie (noun) - a collection of live animals for study or display
  • mythology (noun) - myths collectively
  • nuclear club (noun) - the nations possessing nuclear weapons
  • pack (noun) - a complete collection of similar things
  • package, bundle, packet, parcel (noun) - a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
  • pantheon (noun) - all the gods of a religion
  • petting zoo (noun) - a collection of docile animals for children to pet and feed
  • pharmacopoeia (noun) - a collection or stock of drugs
  • pile, heap, mound, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus (noun) - a collection of objects laid on top of each other
  • planting (noun) - a collection of plants (trees or shrubs or flowers) in a particular area
  • population, universe (noun) - (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
  • procession (noun) - the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation
  • prosecution (noun) - the lawyers acting for the state to put the case against the defendant
  • repertoire, repertory (noun) - a collection of works (plays, songs, operas, ballets) that an artist or company can perform and do perform for short intervals on a regular schedule
  • repertory, repertoire (noun) - the entire range of skills or aptitudes or devices used in a particular field or occupation
  • rogue's gallery (noun) - a collection of pictures of criminals
  • set (noun) - a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
  • signage (noun) - signs collectively (especially commercial signs or posters)
  • smithereens (noun) - a collection of small fragments considered as a whole
  • stamp collection (noun) - a collection of stamps
  • statuary (noun) - statues collectively
  • string (noun) - a collection of objects threaded on a single strand
  • sum, summation, sum total (noun) - the final aggregate
  • tenantry (noun) - tenants of an estate considered as a group
  • traffic (noun) - the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time
  • treasure (noun) - a collection of precious things
  • treasure trove (noun) - any collection of valuables that is discovered
  • trinketry (noun) - trinkets and other ornaments of dress collectively
  • troponymy, troponomy (noun) - the place names of a region or a language considered collectively
  • vegetation, flora, botany (noun) - all the plant life in a particular region or period
  • wardrobe (noun) - collection of clothing belonging to one person
  • wardrobe (noun) - collection of costumes belonging to a theatrical company
instances of collection:
  • Nag Hammadi, Nag Hammadi Library (noun) - a collection of 13 ancient papyrus codices translated from Greek into Coptic that were discovered by farmers near the town of Nag Hammadi in 1945
  • Wise Men, Magi (noun) - (New Testament) the sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born
collection is derivationally related to:

2. a publication containing a variety of works.

collection, compendium

collection is a type of:
  • publication (noun) - a copy of a printed work offered for distribution
types of collection:
  • anthology (noun) - a collection of selected literary passages
  • archives (noun) - collection of records especially about an institution
  • compilation, digest (noun) - something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)

3. request for a sum of money.

solicitation, appeal, collection, ingathering

Example:
  • “an appeal to raise money for starving children”
collection is a type of:
types of collection:
  • whip-round (noun) - (British) solicitation of money usually for a benevolent purpose

4. the act of gathering something together.

collection, collecting, assembling, aggregation

collection is a type of:
  • grouping (noun) - the activity of putting things together in groups
types of collection:
collection is derivationally related to: