The meaning of COLLECTION is the act or process of collecting. How to use collection in a sentence.

We’re taking (up) a collection for his retirement gift (= getting money from people who want to give it).

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A collection of things is a group of similar things that you have deliberately acquired, usually over a period of time. Robert's collection of prints and paintings has been bought over the years.

A collection is a group of things, often a group created by someone. For example, many kids have a collection of comic books.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, houses an encyclopedic collection of nearly 80,000 works of art created throughout the world, from antiquity to the present. Explore the Museum’s art collections …

collection, n. meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary

Apr 29, 2026 · Noun collection (countable and uncountable, plural collections) Museum stores its butterfly collection in special specimen drawers. A set of items or amount of material procured, …

Collection definition: A group of objects or works to be seen, studied, or kept together.

noun The act or practice of collecting or of gathering together: as, the collection of rare books.