collections

NOUN

group, accumulation

Synonyms

STRONGEST

assemblage assortment compilation lot number selection set store

STRONG

acquiring acquisition agglomeration anthology assembling assembly batch caboodle clump cluster collation combination company congeries congregation convocation crowd cumulation digest gathering heap hoard kit levy mass medley mess miscellany mobilization muster omnibus pile quantity stack stock stockpile

WEAK

accumulating amassing amassment bringing together obtaining securing

Antonyms

STRONG

division individual separation

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collections

"Migrant communities often had to figure out their own niche in a new place," said Andrea Torvinen, collections manager of the Ceramic Technology Lab and Florida Archaeology at the Florida Museum.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Despite a pedigree that includes work in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Hammer Museum, Herman remains resolutely modest and insatiably curious.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

The name Severnichthys had been used for individual teeth and a few small bones that existed in many museum collections.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

On Monday, Milan passes the baton to Paris, where the collections of Dior, Louis Vuitton, Valentino and Carven will be presented.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

When at last he did succeed in getting to the surface, tired and smelly, he observed that the truck was not making any more collections but was rumbling rapidly along.

From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White