Definitions for collection

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collection col·lec·tion

Spelling: [kuh-lek-shuh n]

IPA: /kəˈlɛk ʃən/

Collection is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 339 anagrams from letters in collection (cceillnoot).

Definitions for collection

noun

1. the act of collecting.
2. something that is collected; a group of objects or an amount of material accumulated in one location, especially for some purpose or as a result of some process:
3. the works of art constituting the holdings of an art museum:
4. the gathered or exhibited works of a single painter, sculptor, etc.:
5. collections, the various holdings of an art museum organized by category, as painting, sculpture, works on paper, photography, or film:
6. the clothes or other items produced by a designer, especially for a seasonal line:
7. a sum of money collected, especially for charity or church use.
8. Manège. act of bringing or coming into a collected attitude.

Origin of collection

1350-1400; Middle English colleccioun (Anglo-French) Latin collēctiōn- (stem of collēctiō), equivalent to collēct(us) (past participle of colligere; see collect

Examples for collection

In 2011, the rapper-turned-self parody debuted his first collection, Dw Kanye West.

The collection includes kimono capes and hand woven jump overalls.

Speaking of the literature you love, the Bloomsbury writers crop up in your collection repeatedly.

A collection of German stories emitted a scent of brimstone.

"Still, I added to the collection to-day," pursued Miss Whitmore, calmly.

I am hoping that some readers will look on this collection primarily as a book of poems.

Not improbably, the public may yet be gratified with this collection.

He went all over me, taking up a collection, and did first-rate.

She reassumed slave posture while Couple grabbed two magnetized clamps and a collection of circular magnets from a nearby shelf.

It houses more than 450,000 bottles of 15,000 elixirs within its collection valued at 25 million euros in 2009.