Other forms: collections
A collection is a set of things gathered because they belong together. A stamp collection, the museum's collection, a collection of essays.
It also means the gathering itself: a church collection, a refuse collection. In fashion a collection is a season's designs shown together. What makes it a collection rather than a pile is that somebody decided what belongs.
1nouncollectionA set of things gathered because they belong together.
“My grandfather has a huge collection of old coins from around the world.”
collection is a set.
Latin collectio comes from colligere, to gather together — com plus legere, to gather.
Proto-Indo-European
*leǵ- — to gather, collect
Latin
collēctiō
Old French
collection
Middle English
colleccioun
English, today
collection
Built from
From Middle English colleccioun, collection, from Old French collection, from Latin collēctiō, from collēctus, from colligō (“collect together”), composed of con + legō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European leǵ- (“to gather, collect”). Equivalent to collect + ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA