# collection

Pronunciation: say "kuh-LEK-shuhn" /kəˈlɛkʃən/

## Noun

1. A group of objects or an amount of material brought together, as by acquiring, gathering, or exhibiting them.
   - Simple: A group of things gathered or kept together.
   - _The museum's collection includes paintings from every major European school._
   - _Over the years she built a remarkable collection of rare first editions._
2. The act or process of collecting things or money from different places or people, such as trash, taxes or unpaid debts.
   - Simple: The act of collecting things or money, such as trash, taxes or money that people owe.
   - _Tax collection funds most public services._
   - _The collection of survey responses continued through the summer._
3. A line of new clothing or other goods that a designer or company produces and launches as a set, typically for a single season.
   - Simple: A group of new clothes or other products that a designer or company makes and shows together, often for one season.
   - _The designer showed her fall collection in Paris to a packed room of buyers._
   - _The furniture brand releases two collections a year, each built around a different color palette._
4. A gathering of money for charity or another purpose, often by passing a box or plate for donations.
   - Simple: Money gathered from people, often for a good cause.
   - _The volunteers organized a collection for the flood victims._
   - _After the sermon, a collection was taken for the building fund._

## Noun

5. The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts, or the conclusion drawn in this way. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: The act of working something out from facts, or the conclusion you reach.

## Other meanings

- (noun) The quality of being composed and self-possessed; calm composure under pressure.
- (noun) In mathematics, an informal word for a set or class, especially one whose members are sets; it may be too large to be a set.
- (noun) A set of pitch classes that a composer draws on as the basis of a work.
- (noun) College examinations at Oxford University, generally taken at the start of term.
- (noun) The territory or jurisdiction administered by a collector of excise duties.

## Origin

The word comes from Middle English colleccioun, borrowed from Old French collection, which came from Latin collēctiō (from collēctus, from colligō "collect together"). Colligō is made of con- plus legō ("bring together, gather"), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *leǵ- ("to gather, collect").

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/collection (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).