All collection synonyms

noun collection

• selection — an act or instance of selecting or the state of being selected; choice.
• compilation — A compilation is a book, CD, or programme that contains many different items that have been gathered together, usually ones which have already appeared in other places.
• number — one of a series of things distinguished by or marked with numerals.
• set — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
• assemblage — An assemblage of people or things is a collection of them.
• lot — lot (def 14).
• assortment — An assortment is a group of similar things that are of different sizes or colours or have different qualities.
• store — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
• gathering — a drawing together; contraction.
• crowd — A crowd is a large group of people who have gathered together, for example to watch or listen to something interesting, or to protest about something.
• cluster — A cluster of people or things is a small group of them close together.
• digest — to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
• combination — A combination of things is a mixture of them.
• anthology — An anthology is a collection of writings by different writers published together in one book.
• pile — the lower of two dies for coining by hand.
• hoard — a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc.: a vast hoard of silver.
• stock — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
• levy — an imposing or collecting, as of a tax, by authority or force.
• assembly — An assembly is a large group of people who meet regularly to make decisions or laws for a particular region or country.
• agglomeration — An agglomeration of things is a lot of different things gathered together, often in no particular order or arrangement.
• mess — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
• company — A company is a business organization that makes money by selling goods or services.
• convocation — A convocation is a meeting or ceremony attended by a large number of people.
• kit — Christopher ("Kit") 1809–68, U.S. frontiersman and scout.
• congregation — The people who are attending a church service or who regularly attend a church service are referred to as the congregation.
• heap — a group of things placed, thrown, or lying one on another; pile: a heap of stones.
• collation — the act or process of collating
• stack — a more or less orderly pile or heap: a precariously balanced stack of books; a neat stack of papers.
• congeries — a collection of objects or ideas; mass; heap
• muster — to assemble (troops, a ship's crew, etc.), as for battle, display, inspection, orders, or discharge.
• batch — A batch of things or people is a group of things or people of the same kind, especially a group that is dealt with at the same time or is sent to a particular place at the same time.
• medley — a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble.
• omnibus — bus1 (def 1).
• stockpile — a supply of material, as a pile of gravel in road maintenance.
• mass — the celebration of the Eucharist. Compare High Mass, Low Mass.
• miscellany — a miscellaneous collection or group of various or somewhat unrelated items.
• cumulation — the act of cumulating; accumulation.
• clump — A clump of things such as trees or plants is a small group of them growing together.
• acquisition — If a company or business person makes an acquisition, they buy another company or part of a company.
• quantity — a particular or indefinite amount of anything: a small quantity of milk; the ocean's vast quantity of fish.
• assembling — to bring together or gather into one place, company, body, or whole.
• caboodle — a lot, bunch, or group (esp in the phrases the whole caboodle, the whole kit and caboodle)
• mobilization — to assemble or marshal (armed forces, military reserves, or civilian persons of military age) into readiness for active service.
• acquiring — to come into possession or ownership of; get as one's own: to acquire property.
• group — any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings.
• pool — Also called pocket billiards. any of various games played on a pool table with a cue ball and 15 other balls that are usually numbered, in which the object is to drive all the balls into the pockets with the cue ball.
• throng — a multitude of people crowded or assembled together; crowd.
• accumulation — An accumulation of something is a large number of things which have been collected together or acquired over a period of time.
• mobilisation — The act of mobilising.
• compendium — A compendium is a short but detailed collection of information, usually in a book.