collection

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1. The act or process of collecting.

2. A group of objects or works to be seen, studied, or kept together.

3. A line of products produced for one season, as those developed by a designer: promoted the summer collection in the store window.

4. An accumulation; a deposit: a collection of dust on the piano.

a. A collecting of money, as in church.

b. The sum so collected.

collection

Noun

1. things collected or accumulated

2. a group of people

3. the act or process of collecting

4. a selection of clothes usually presented by a particular designer

5. a sum of money collected, as in church

6. a regular removal of letters from a postbox

Collection a gathering of objects or of persons, as works of art, literary materials, etc.; a quantity of anything collected together into a mass; an assemblage. See also accumulation.

Examples: collection of literary material, 1460; of floating vapours, 1747; of waters, 1697; of works of art, 1651.

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Noun	1.	collection - several things grouped together or considered as a whole aggregation, accumulation, assemblage group, grouping - any number of entities (members) considered as a unit procession - the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation; "processions were forbidden" pharmacopoeia - a collection or stock of drugs string - a collection of objects threaded on a single strand wardrobe - collection of clothing belonging to one person wardrobe - collection of costumes belonging to a theatrical company universe, population - (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; "it is an estimate of the mean of the population" armamentarium - the collection of equipment and methods used in the practice of medicine art collection - a collection of art works backlog - 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) battery - a collection of related things intended for use together; "took a battery of achievement tests" block - a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit; "he reserved a large block of seats"; "he held a large block of the company's stock" rule book, book - a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made; "they run things by the book around here" book - a collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game bottle collection - a collection of bottles; "her bottle collection is arranged on glass shelves in the window" caboodle, bunch, lot - any collection in its entirety; "she bought the whole caboodle" coin collection - a collection of coins collage - any collection of diverse things; "a collage of memories" content - everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something; "he emptied the contents of his pockets"; "the two groups were similar in content" tout ensemble, ensemble - an assemblage of parts or details (as in a work of art) considered as forming a whole corpus - a collection of writings; "he edited the Hemingway corpus" crop - a collection of people or things appearing together; "the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas" tenantry - tenants of an estate considered as a group findings - a collection of tools and other articles used by an artisan to make jewelry or clothing or shoes flagging - flagstones collectively; "there was a pile of flagging waiting to be laid in place" flinders - bits and splinters and fragments; "it would have shattered in flinders long before it did that damage" pack - a complete collection of similar things deal, hand - the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time; "I didn't hold a good hand all evening"; "he kept trying to see my hand" long suit - in a hand, the suit having the most cards herbarium - a collection of dried plants that are mounted and systematically classified for study stamp collection - a collection of stamps statuary - statues collectively sum total, summation, sum - the final aggregate; "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered" agglomeration - a jumbled collection or mass gimmickry - a collection of gimmicks nuclear club - the nations possessing nuclear weapons cumulation, heap, pile, agglomerate, cumulus, mound - a collection of objects laid on top of each other mass - an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people) combination - a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities congregation - an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together; "a congregation of children pleaded for his autograph"; "a great congregation of birds flew over" hit parade - a collection of the best or most popular people or items of a given kind Judaica - historical and literary materials relating to Judaism kludge - 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)
	2.	collection - a publication containing a variety of works compendium publication - a copy of a printed work offered for distribution anthology - a collection of selected literary passages archives - collection of records especially about an institution compilation, digest - something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)
	3.	collection - request for a sum of money; "an appeal to raise money for starving children" ingathering, solicitation, appeal petition, request, postulation - a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority whip-round - (British) solicitation of money usually for a benevolent purpose
	4.	collection - the act of gathering something together assembling, collecting, aggregation grouping - the activity of putting things together in groups agglomeration - the act of collecting in a mass; the act of agglomerating collation - assembling in proper numerical or logical sequence compiling, compilation - the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list); "the job of compiling the inventory took several hours" gather, gathering - the act of gathering something bottle collection - the activity of collecting bottles; "bottle collection is a hobby of hers" conchology, shell collecting - the collection and study of mollusc shells coin collecting, numismatics, numismatology, coin collection - the collection and study of money (and coins in particular) pickup - the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places; "garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays" philately, stamp collecting, stamp collection - the collection and study of postage stamps tax collection - the collection of taxes