collection
A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together.
Noun 4 meanings
A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together.
“The attic contains a remarkable collection of antiques, oddities, and random junk.”
A set of pitch classes used by a composer.
The activity of collecting.
“Collection of trash will occur every Thursday.”
A set of sets; used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a set.
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”). Equivalent to collect + -ion.
COLLECTION at a glance
COLLECTION has 10 letters and scores 14 points in Scrabble (C 3 + O 1 + L 1 + L 1 + E 1 + C 3 + T 1 + I 1 + O 1 + N 1) and 19 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,122 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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