English noun: collection |
1. | collection (group) several things grouped together or considered as a whole |
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| Synonyms | accumulation, aggregation, assemblage |
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| Broader (hypernym) | group, grouping |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | agglomerate, agglomeration, air power, ana, armamentarium, art collection, Asia, assortment, aviation, backlog, batch, batch, battery, biology, biota, block, book, book, botany, bottle collection, bunch, bundle, caboodle, category, Central America, class, clutch, coin collection, collage, combination, congregation, content, convoy, corpus, crop, cumulation, cumulus, data, deal, defence, defense, defense lawyers, defense team, ensemble, Europe, exhibition, expo, exposition, extragalactic nebula, family, fauna, findings, flagging, fleet, fleet, fleet, flinders, flora, Free World, GAAP, galaxy, galaxy, generally accepted accounting principles, gimmickry, hand, heap, herbarium, hit parade, information, job lot, Judaica, jurisprudence, kludge, law, library, library, long suit, lot, mail, mass, menagerie, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, mound, mythology, North America, nuclear club, Oort cloud, pack, package, packet, pantheon, parcel, petting zoo, pharmacopoeia, pile, planting, population, post, potpourri, procession, program library, prosecution, repertoire, repertoire, repertory, repertory, rogue's gallery, rule book, salmagundi, set, signage, smithereens, smorgasbord, South America, stamp collection, statuary, string, subroutine library, sum, sum total, summation, tenantry, Third World, tout ensemble, traffic, treasure, treasure trove, trinketry, troponomy, troponymy, universe, variety, vegetation, Victoriana, wardrobe, wardrobe, zoology |
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| Instance hyponym | Magi, Nag Hammadi, Nag Hammadi Library, Wise Men |
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2. | collection (communication) a publication containing a variety of works |
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| Synonyms | compendium |
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| Broader (hypernym) | publication |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | anthology, archives, compilation, digest |
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3. | collection (communication) request for a sum of money |
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| Samples | An appeal to raise money for starving children.
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| Synonyms | appeal, ingathering, solicitation |
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| Broader (hypernym) | petition, postulation, request |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | whip-round |
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4. | collection (act) the act of gathering something together |
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| Synonyms | aggregation, assembling, collecting |
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| Broader (hypernym) | grouping |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | agglomeration, bottle collection, coin collecting, coin collection, collation, compilation, compiling, conchology, gather, gathering, numismatics, numismatology, philately, pickup, shell collecting, stamp collecting, stamp collection, tax collection |
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