collection

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Singular
collection

Plural
collections

Collection is on the Academic Vocabulary List.
A rock collection
A collection of lighters
  1. A collection is a group of things of the same type. They are usually special in some way.
    He has one of the biggest collections of paintings by Van Gogh.
  2. If you take a collection, you ask many people for money, for a particular reason.
    The school took a collection for new books.

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