collection

Signification (Anglais)

1. (countable, uncountable) A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together.
2. (countable, uncountable) A set of pitch classes used by a composer.
3. (countable, uncountable) The activity of collecting.
4. (countable, uncountable) A set of sets; used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a set.
5. (countable, uncountable) A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
6. (countable, uncountable) Debt collection.
7. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
8. (UK, countable, uncountable) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
9. (countable, plural-normally, uncountable) A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
10. (countable, uncountable) The quality of being collected; calm composure.

Concepts

collection

recueil

collecte

recouvrement

ensemble

accumulation

troupe

encaissement

🧾

bande

fonds

agrégation

levée

de collection

anthologie

rassemblement

récolte

ramassage

ramassis

sollicitation

tas

quête

regroupement

relevée

réunion

perception des taxes

prélèvement des taxes

perception de taxes

prélèvement de taxes

amas

appel

assemblage

assortiment

compendium

cueillette

florilège

foule

gerbe

groupe

manuel

masse

mélange

multitude

perception

philatélie

Synonymes

multitude

group

heap

assemblage

accumulation

gathering

set

crowd

mass

flock

herd

aggregation

assembly

quantity

collecting

aggregate

cluster

pile

bevy

anthology

compilation

team

company

recovery

picking

assortment

number

🔢

series

swarm

harvest

class

party

🥳

compendium

agglomeration

bundle

appeal

variety

shoal

band

combination

solicitation

collect

assembling

mixture

miscellany

congregation

corpus

levy

are

bunch

Traductions

Sammlung

colección

collezione

raccolta

Kollektion

συλλογή

coleção

مجموعة

col·lecció

koleksiyon

riscossione

antoloji

collectie

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/kəˈlɛkʃən/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: colleccioun

In summary

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”). Equivalen to collect + -ion.

Phrases

The work is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art .

L'œuvre est actuellement dans la collection du Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Another is in the collection of Trinity College , Cambridge .

Un autre est dans la collection de Trinity College, Cambridge.

The collection remained unsold .

La collection est restée invendue.

The type material is preserved in the collection of the Redpath Museum .

Le matériau de type est conservé dans la collection du Musée Redpath.

The collection is edited by Jenny Offill and Elissa Schappell.

La collection est éditée par Jenny Offill et Elissa Schappell.