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COLLECTANEA

Definition: COLLECTANEA

COLLECTANEA

Transitive verb

1. Passages selected from various authors, usually for purposes of instruction; miscellany; anthology.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Collectanea \Col`lec*ta"ne*a\, plural noun. [Neutral plural from Latin collectaneus collected, from colligere. See Collect, transitive verb]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definition: COLLECTANEA

DomainDefinition

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: COLLECTANEA

ContextSynonyms 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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Commercial Usage: COLLECTANEA

DomainTitle

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: COLLECTANEA

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: COLLECTANEA

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

collectanea

8

alexandrina collectanea

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: COLLECTANEA

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

   

Portuguese

  

coletânea (chrestomathy, garland, lore, selection). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

собрание заметок. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

skriftsamling. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "COLLECTANEA"

Words rhyming with "COLLECTANEA" (pronounced 'Col`lec*ta"ne*a'): Castanea, Cornea, miscellanea, Sternebra. (additional references)

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Anagrams: COLLECTANEA

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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