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# collection

«collection» in Mova's school dictionary: **a group of things a person gathers and keeps, like stamps…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (collection, collections); verb collect

### meaning for a pupil

1) A collection is a group of things a person gathers and keeps, like stamps or shells. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collection/#m3)

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

- [Some gossip can turn into something kind: a card, a collection, a thank you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/43-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation/26/)
- [As the collection plate went past in church in Boston, Matthew slipped out a coin to buy sweets after the service.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate/0/)
- [The collection plate gathers money given to the church, often for people who need help and for running the church.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/364-giggles-sunday-school-and-the-collection-plate/19/)
- [In Houston, Aaliyah's little sisters wreck her slime collection.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest/16/)
- [The Book of Proverbs is a collection of short wise sayings, many linked with King Solomon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/11-psalms-and-proverbs/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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