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# collation

«collation» in Mova's school dictionary: **a light meal, a snack set out for guests** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural collations)

### meaning for a pupil

A collation is a light meal, a snack set out for guests. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collation/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a guest is offered a fine collation before he goes out to look around the farm.

### examples

- After the long walk we had a light collation of bread and cheese. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collation/#x1)
- The guests were served a collation in the garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collation/#x2)
- He ate nothing at the collation because he was too excited. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collation/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «collation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.