'Collection' definitions:
Definition of 'collection'
From: WordNet
noun
Several things grouped together or considered as a whole [syn: collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage]
noun
A publication containing a variety of works [syn: collection, compendium]
noun
Request for a sum of money; "an appeal to raise money for starving children" [syn: solicitation, appeal, collection, ingathering]
noun
Definition of 'Collection'
From: GCIDE
- Collection \Col*lec"tion\, n. [L. collectio: cf. F. collection.]
- 1. The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is collected; as: (a) A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons. "A collection of letters." --Macaulay. (b) A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings. "The collection for the saints." --1 Cor. xvi. 1 (c) (Usually in pl.) That which is obtained in payment of demands. (d) An accumulation of any substance. "Collections of moisture." --Whewell. "A purulent collection." --Dunglison. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The jurisdiction of a collector of excise. [Eng.]
- Syn: Gathering; assembly; assemblage; group; crowd; congregation; mass; heap; compilation. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Collection'
From: Easton
- Collection The Christians in Palestine, from various causes, suffered from poverty. Paul awakened an interest in them among the Gentile churches, and made pecuniary collections in their behalf (Acts 24:17; Rom. 15:25, 26; 1 Cor. 16:1-3; 2 Cor. 8:9; Gal. 2:10).
Synonyms of 'collection'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abundance,
- accumulation,
- agglomeration,
- aggregation,
- album,
- alms,
- alms fee,
- amassment,
- ana,
- analects,
- anthology,
- aquarium,
- assemblage,
- assembling,
- assembly,
- assortment,
- back number,
- backlog,
- band,
- beauties,
- body,
- boiling,
- bringing together,
- budget,
- bunch,
- burnt offering,
- call-up,
- canon,
- canvass,
- census,
- charity,
- chrestomathy,
- clippings,
- clump,
- cluster,
- collectanea,
- collected works,
- collecting,
- colligation,
- collocation,
- colluvies,
- combination,
- commissariat,
- commissary,
- company,
- comparison,
- compilation,
- complete works,
- concourse,
- concurrence,
- confluence,
- conflux,
- congeries,
- conglomeration,
- congregation,
- contribution,
- convergence,
- copy,
- cornucopia,
- corpus,
- corralling,
- crew,
- crowd,
- cumulation,
- cuttings,
- data,
- data-gathering,
- delectus,
- dole,
- donation,
- donative,
- drink offering,
- dump,
- edition,
- ex voto offering,
- excerpta,
- excerpts,
- extracts,
- Festschrift,
- florilegium,
- flowers,
- fragments,
- fund,
- garden,
- garland,
- garnering,
- gathering,
- gleaning,
- gleanings,
- group,
- handout,
- heap,
- heave offering,
- hecatomb,
- hoard,
- holdings,
- holocaust,
- human sacrifice,
- immolation,
- impression,
- incense,
- infanticide,
- ingathering,
- inventory,
- issue,
- junction,
- juxtaposition,
- kit,
- larder,
- libation,
- library,
- library edition,
- lot,
- mactation,
- mass,
- material,
- materials,
- materiel,
- medley,
- menagerie,
- miscellanea,
- miscellany,
- mobilization,
- munitions,
- museum,
- muster,
- number,
- oblation,
- offering,
- offertory,
- omnibus,
- omnium gatherum,
- outfit,
- party,
- peace offering,
- photograph album,
- piacular offering,
- pile,
- pittance,
- plenitude,
- plenty,
- printing,
- provisionment,
- provisions,
- quotation book,
- rations,
- raw data,
- repertoire,
- repertory,
- rick,
- rodeo,
- roundup,
- ruck,
- sacramental offering,
- sacrifice,
- scapegoat,
- school edition,
- scrapbook,
- self-immolation,
- self-sacrifice,
- series,
- set,
- solicitation,
- stack,
- stock,
- stock-in-trade,
- stockpile,
- store,
- stores,
- subscription,
- supplies,
- supply on hand,
- survey,
- suttee,
- sutteeism,
- symposium,
- thank offering,
- tithe,
- trade book,
- trade edition,
- treasure,
- treasury,
- trove,
- variety,
- volume,
- votive offering,
- whole offering,
- zoo
Words containing 'Collection'
- Collect,
- Collected,
- Collectedly,
- Collectible,
- Collecting,
- Collectional,
- Collective,
- Collectively,
- Collectiveness,
- Collectivity,
- collectable,
- Collective fruit,
- art collection,
- bottle collection,
- coin collecting,
- coin collection,
- collect call,
- collect on delivery,
- collection agent,
- collection basket,
- collection plate,
- collective agreement,
- collective bargaining,
- collective farm,
- collective noun,
- collective security,
- garbage collection,
- loan collection,
- map collection,
- motley collection,
- rental collection,
- shell collecting,
- stamp collecting,
- stamp collection,
- tax collection,
- trash collection,
- Re-collect,
- To collect one's self,
- self-collected