collection

I

(Roget's IV) n.

1. [The act of collecting]

Syn. gathering, finding, making a collection, completing a collection, collecting, compilation, recovering, bringing together, searching for, assembling, amassing, compiling, acquisition, obtaining, securing, discovering, accumuLating, acquiring, roundup; see also accumulation 1 .

2. [That which has been collected]

Syn. accumulation, assortment, specimens, samples, examples, extracts, citations, models, corpus, agglomeration, pile, stack, group, assemblage, set, compilation, mass, quantity, selection, array, battery, treasury, anthology, omnibus, garland, medley, miscellany, hodgepodge, aggregation, combination, number, symposium, festschrift, ana, chrestomathy, compendium, collectanea, amassment, store, stock, cache, hoard, holdings, digest, arrangement, concentration, discoveries, finds, collation, batch, mess, lot, heap, bunch; see also gathering , heap .

II

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

1. accumulation cumulation, mass, group, assortment, assembly, pile, gathering, stockpile, store, hoard, cluster, congregation, aggregation, compilation, anthology, hodgepodge.

2. offering tithe, offertory, contribution, alms.

III

(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. A number of individuals making up or considered a unit: array, band2, batch, bevy, body, bunch, bundle, clump, cluster, clutch2, group, knot, lot, party, set2. See GROUP. 2. A quantity accumulated: accumulation, aggregation, amassment, assemblage, congeries, cumulation, gathering, mass. See COLLECT.