English Online Dictionary. What means collection? What does collection mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle English colleccioun, collection, from Old French collection, from Latin collēctiō, collēctiōnem, from collēctus, from colligō (“collect together”), composed of con- + legō (“bring together, gather, collect”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather, collect”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kəˈlɛkʃən/
- Rhymes: -ɛkʃən
- Hyphenation: col‧lec‧tion
Noun
collection (countable and uncountable, plural collections)
- A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together.
- (music) A set of pitch classes used by a composer.
- The activity of collecting.
- (set theory, topology, mathematical analysis) A set of sets; used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a set.
- A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
- (law) Debt collection.
- (obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
- (UK) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
- (Oxford University, usually in the plural) A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
- The quality of being collected; calm composure.
Derived terms
Translations
French
Alternative forms
- c., coll. (abbreviations)
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin collēctiō. Cf. also Old French quieuçon, which may be inherited from the same source, and the modern cueillaison, which was probably formed analogically.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ.lɛk.sjɔ̃/
- Rhymes: -ɔ̃
- Homophone: collections
- Hyphenation: col‧lec‧tion
Noun
collection f (plural collections)
- collection
Derived terms
- collectionner
- collectionneur
- collectionnite
Related terms
- collecte
- collecter
- cueillette
- cueillir
Descendants
- → Romanian: colecție
- → Turkish: koleksiyon
Further reading
- “collection”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.