Word Meanings - COLLECTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens. 2. That which is collected; as: A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons. "A collection of letters." Macaulay. A gathering of money for charitable

Additional info about word: COLLECTION

1. The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens. 2. That which is collected; as: A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons. "A collection of letters." Macaulay. 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 That which is obtained in payment of demands. An accumulation of any substance. "Collections of moisture." Whewell. "A purulent collection." Dunglison. 3. The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred. We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines. Milton. 4. The jurisdiction of a collector of excise. Syn. -- Gathering; assembly; assemblage; group; crowd; congregation; mass; heap; compilation.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COLLECTION)

• Accumulation
• Heap
• collection
• store
• mass
• aggregation
• hoard
• pile
• Aggregate
• Aggregation
• Sum
• result
• total
• whole
• totality
• amount
• collation
• combination
• Assembly
• Meeting
• concourse
• assemblage
• multitude
• group
• synod
• conclave
• conference
• convocation
• unison
• company
• congregation
• crowd
• gathering
• convention
• aggregate
• Body
• Substance
• substantiality
• collectiveness
• matter
• association
• organization
• Group
• Cluster
• bunch
• knot
• collocation
• class
• clump
• order
• assembly

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COLLECTION)

• Fall
• recede
• relapse
• decline
• fail
• Originate
• arise
• precede
• spring
• commence
• start
• begin

Related words: (words related to COLLECTION)

• CLASSIFIC
  Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• MEETER
  One who meets.
• CLASSIFICATORY
  Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
• CONFERENCE
  A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters. 6. A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are. Conference meeting,
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• CLASSICISM
  A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
• CONVENTIONALLY
  In a conventional manner.
• SPRINGBOARD
  An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
• SPRINGE
  A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare. As a woodcock to mine own springe. Shak.
• SPRINGAL
  An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring.
• ASSOCIATION
  1. The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. "Some . . . bond of association." Hooker. Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. Boyle. 2. Mental connection, or that which is
• UNISONANCE
  Accordance of sounds; unison.
• CLASSIS
  An ecclesiastical body or judicat (more info) 1. A class or order; sort; kind. His opinion of that classis of men. Clarendon.
• SPRINT
  To run very rapidly; to run at full speed. A runner should be able to sprint the whole way. Encyc. Brit. (more info) Etym:
• STARTLINGLY
  In a startling manner.
• TOTALIS
  The total. I look on nothing but totalis. B. Jonson.
• ASSOCIATIONIST
  One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.
• CONVENTIONAL
  1. Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated. Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service. Sir M. Hale. 2. Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• HANDSPRING
  A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.