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# collection

noun (collection, collections); verb collect

«collection» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A collection is a group of things a person gathers and keeps, like stamps or shells. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collection/#m1)
2. A collection is the act of collecting: «rubbish collection», «a collection for charity». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collection/#m2)
3. A collection is a group of stories, songs or art kept together, as in a museum. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collection/#m3)

### In the lessons

the amount of something one owns and keeps: it grows when one finds or buys more and shrinks when one gives away; museums have collections; phrases: «stamp collection», «add to a collection», «a collection of»

### Examples

- Ed has 120 stamps in his collection. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collection/#x1)
- He added 15 more shells to his collection. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collection/#x2)
- She gave 20 cards from her collection to her friend. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collection/#x3)
- His collection has 3 times as many as hers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collection/#x4)
- The museum has a big collection of dinosaur bones. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collection/#x5)
- We had a collection for the animal shelter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collection/#x6)
- Rubbish collection is on Mondays. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collection/#x7)
- This book is a collection of fairy tales. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collection/#x8)
- Rivière's collection of Kabyle tales, and so on. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collection/#x9)

### Note

Countable: a collection, collections. A total kept by one owner: added to and taken from. Trap: «in his collection» is the whole amount, not a part.

## In Jewish tradition

In Ecclesiastes it means a gathered set of wise sayings.

**Interpretation.** The tradition reads the "collections" given by "one shepherd" as wise teachings gathered together and all coming from God.

### Examples

- The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails well fastened are those that are composed in collections; they are given from one shepherd. (Writings ECC.12.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/collection/#x1)

### Note

Countable: a collection, collections. A total kept by one owner: added to and taken from. Trap: «in his collection» is the whole amount, not a part.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «collection» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collection/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«collection» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/collection.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «collection» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/collection/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«collection» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/collection.html) on Mova free.