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collection Definition

col·lec·tion (kə lek′s̸hən)

noun

  1. the act or process of collecting
  2. things collected, specif., as in a hobby a collection of stamps
  3. a mass or pile; accumulation
  4. money collected, as during a church service

Etymology: ME collecioun < L collectio

collection Synonyms

collection

n.

  1. The act of collecting

    gathering, finding, making a collection, completing a collection, collecting, compilation, recovering, bringing together, searching for, assembling, amassing, compiling, acquisition, obtaining, securing, discovering, accumulating, acquiring, roundup; see also accumulation 1.

  2. That which has been collected

    accumulation, assortment, specimens, samples, examples, extracts, citations, models, corpus, agglomeration, pile, stack, group, assemblage, set, compilation, mass, quantity, selection, array, battery, treasury, anthology, omnibus, garland, medley, miscellany, hodgepodge, aggregation, combination, number, symposium, festschrift, ana, chrestomathy, compendium, collectanea, amassment, store, stock, cache, hoard, holdings, digest, arrangement, concentration, discoveries, finds, collation, batch, mess, lot, heap, bunch; see also gathering, heap.

collection Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • essay: I opt for A Fly On The Water, a collection of essays many of which appeared in The Times.
  • story: Contents Next Collected Stories is a collection of sixty-five stories drawn from Nabokov's entire working life.
  • poem: This is a wonderful collection of poems for older children at Christmas.
  • photograph: We also have a fairly good collection of photographs of past mayors and civic events.
  • poetry: In 1920 he published a collection of poetry by John Clare - which helped to bring Clare to a wider audience.

Converse of object

  • edit: Her publications include reports, briefing papers and a co-authored chapter in an edited collection.
  • arrange: To arrange a collection, please contact Street Care Services.
  • refuse: Wycombe District Council Recycling collection Recycling collections compliment the household refuse collections.

Adjective modifier

  • extensive: The ICAEW Library & Information Service holds an extensive collection of law cases in over 245 series of law reports.
  • large: Print Journals The library has a large collection of print journals.
  • comprehensive: Sign up for FREE access to a comprehensive collection of... to over 36,000 Sudoku Puzzles.
  • special: Academic staff are welcome to use material from Special Collections for teaching or research.
  • permanent: Jan is responsible for the development of our permanent collection of objects, including the oral history archive.
  • entire: Placing the collection on the VADS server was also part of the museum's long-term preservation strategy for its entire collection.

Noun used with modifier

  • data: Where the data collection period exceeded 24 hours only the first 24 hours data were analyzed.
  • kerbside: In Powys, you may be able to put it in your kerbside collection.
  • refuse: Mrs Jolliffe will explore this further with the TVBC refuse collection service with a view to getting bins for these locations.
  • garbage: Abstract We show how abstract requirements of garbage collection can be captured using temporal logic.
  • waste: No schools have waste paper collections - why is this?
  • museum: Artifacts from former missionary society museum collections are to be found in a number of museums together with associated documentation.