collection – English noun declension

English noun forms of collection

Noun: collection
Singularcollection
Pluralcollections

Sample Sentences

  • The attic contains a remarkable collection of antiques, oddities, and random junk.
  • The asteroid belt consists of a collection of dust, rubble, and minor planets.
  • This year's Summer Collection will include a wide range of evening wear.
  • He has a big collection of stamps.
  • He has a superb coin collection.
  • Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand. [1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:]
  • collections of moisture [1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences:]
  • a purulent collection [1887, Robert Bartholow, A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine:]
  • Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
  • The "collectional information" one receives is ambiguous since the collection { C, E, F, G, A } occurs in the key of C and in the key of F. [2005, Neil Minturn, The Last Waltz of The Band, page 112:]
  • In fact, students are often taught that specific collections—diatonic, octatonic, and whole-tone, etc.—typify these composers' compositional language. [2009, Brian Moseley, “Form and Transpositional Combination in George Crumb's Lux Aeterna”, in Bruce Quaglia, Jack Boss, editors, Musical Currents from the Left Coast, page 174:]
  • Simply put, the realm of available collections in a largely diatonic environment is much smaller than it is in truly atonal one. [2012, Marguerite Boland, John Link, Elliott Carter Studies, page 22:]
  • Collection of trash will occur every Thursday.
  • The people here are very good to each other, too. When someone's house burned down, when someone was in the hospital, they took up collections for the people. [1976 February 7, Rose Flower, quoting Jimmy McGrath, “Playland: The Friendliest Place In Town”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 32, page 13:]
  • We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines. [1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:]

Etymology

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”). Equivalent to collect + -ion. See: Latin Nouns 'collēctiō'.