collection

Meaning

Noun

• A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
• Multiple related objects associated as a group.
• The activity of collecting.
• A set of sets.
• A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
• Debt collection.
• The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
• The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
• A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
• The quality of being collected; calm composure.

Origin

• From Middle English colleccioun, collection, from Old French collection, from Latin collēctiō.