How do you use the word "collection" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "collection" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "collection": Science is far more than a collection of facts and methods. I'd like to have a look at your stamp collection.

Collection Meaning

/kəˈlɛkʃən/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together.

nounA set of pitch classes used by a composer.

Sentence Examples

Science is far more than a collection of facts and methods.

I'd like to have a look at your stamp collection.

He wanted to share his vast art collection with the world.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

appeal accumulation compendium

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

Her stamp ____ includes rare issues from over fifty different countries around the world.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The museum has a vast ____ of ancient Roman artifacts on display.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English colleccioun, collection, from Old French collection, from Latin collēctiō, collēctiōnem, from collēctus, from colligō (“collect together”), composed of con- + legō (“bring together, gather, collect”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather, collect”). Equivalen to collect + -ion.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand." — 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:

"collections of moisture" — 1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences:

"a purulent collection" — 1887, Robert Bartholow, A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine:

"Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose." — 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

"The "collectional information" one receives is ambiguous since the collection { C, E, F, G, A } occurs in the key of C and in the key of F." — 2005, Neil Minturn, The Last Waltz of The Band, page 112:

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