Collection Definition

kə-lĕkshən
collections
noun
collections
The act or process of collecting.
Webster's New World
A group of objects or works to be seen, studied, or kept together.
American Heritage
A line of products produced for one season, as those developed by a designer.
Promoted the summer collection in the store window.
American Heritage
A mass or pile; accumulation.
Webster's New World
Things collected, specif., as in a hobby.
A collection of stamps.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Collection

Noun

Singular:
collection
Plural:
collections

Origin of Collection

  • Borrowing from Old French collection.

    From Wiktionary

Collection Sentence Examples

  • Cynthia just shook her head in amazement at the collection of gear.

  • My favorite cookbook, Apicius, is a 1,500-year-old collection of recipes from ancient Rome.

  • It was more like a hobby – or maybe a collection.

  • Any time you can move data collection from humans to computers, you get vast improvements in efficiency.

  • Maybe some of the people at World Wide took up a collection.

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Words Starting With

CCOCOL

Words Ending With

NONION

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Words Starting With C and Ending With N

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10 Letter Words10 Letter Words Starting With C10 Letter Words Ending With N