collection

About 58.24 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together.

   The attic contains a remarkable collection of antiques, oddities, and random junk.

2. noun A set of pitch classes used by a composer.
3. noun The activity of collecting.

   Collection of trash will occur every Thursday.

4. noun A set of sets; used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a set.
5. noun A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
6. noun Debt collection.
7. noun The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
8. noun The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.

Similar words

assemblage collecting assembling aggregation accumulation compendium solicitation appeal ingathering collected

Often followed by

of and is in was at for to from

Word family

collections