Definition of Collection

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Collection

The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.

That which is collected

A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons.

A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings.

That which is obtained in payment of demands.

An accumulation of any substance.

The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.

The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.

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Collection Quotations

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
John F. Kennedy

I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it.
Steven Wright

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Albert Camus

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
Virginia Woolf

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Denis Waitley

I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke every last one of 'em.
Ron White

I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection.
Quentin Tarantino

The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle

Collection Translations

collection in Afrikaans is insameling, bundel, versameling
collection in Danish is samling
collection in Dutch is schare, drift, kudde, groep, hoop
collection in French is collection, recueil
collection in German is Sammlung
collection in Italian is incasso, collezkone
collection in Norwegian is samling

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