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Definition: COLLECTANEA |
COLLECTANEATransitive verb1. Passages selected from various authors, usually for purposes of instruction; miscellany; anthology. |
Etymology: Collectanea \Col`lec*ta"ne*a\, plural noun. [Neutral plural from Latin collectaneus collected, from colligere. See Collect, transitive verb]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Information | A systematic bibliography which includes significant documents, parts of documents or excerpts within the bibliography itself, duplicating them where required by the structure of analysis. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assemblage | Miscellany, collectanea; museum, menagerie; (store); museology. |
Compendium | Album; scrap book, note book, memorandum book, commonplace book; extracts, excerpta, cuttings; fugitive pieces, fugitive writing; spicilegium, flowers, anthology, collectanea, analecta; compilation. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| "COLLECTANEA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "COLLECTANEA" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
collectanea | 8 |
alexandrina collectanea | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "COLLECTANEA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | antologji (anthology, miscellany, pandect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сборник (corpus, omnibus, receiver, repertory, sampler), антология (anthology, garner, olio, reader, round up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szemelvények gyûjteménye. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ollectaneacay coletânea (chrestomathy, garland, lore, selection). (various references) собрание заметок. (various references) skriftsamling. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "COLLECTANEA" (pronounced 'Col`lec*ta"ne*a'): Castanea, Cornea, miscellanea, Sternebra. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-e-l-l-n-o-t" | |
-1 letter: lanceolate. | |
-3 letters: allocate, calceate, cetacean, lancelet, ocellate. | |
-4 letters: acetone, callant, canella, catcall, catenae, cenacle, cloacae, cloacal, coenact, collate, collect, colleen, conceal, lacteal, lactean, lactone, nacelle. | |
-5 letters: accent, acetal, anlace, atonal, caecal, callan, callet, cancel, canola, cantle, catalo, catena, cellae, cenote, cental, cetane, cloaca, clonal, coatee, collet, enlace, etalon, lanate, lancet, lateen, locale, locate, octane. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-e-e-l-l-n-o-t" | |
+4 letters: precancellation. | |
+5 letters: cladogenetically, precancellations. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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