Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
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Noun
S: (n) Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)
S: (n) procession (the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation) "processions were forbidden"
S: (n) procession (the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation) "processions were forbidden"
S: (n) string (a collection of objects threaded on a single strand)
S: (n) wardrobe (collection of clothing belonging to one person)
S: (n) wardrobe (collection of costumes belonging to a theatrical company)
S: (n) population, universe ((statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn) "it is an estimate of the mean of the population"
S: (n) armamentarium (the collection of equipment and methods used in the practice of medicine)
S: (n) backlog (an accumulation of jobs not done or materials not processed that are yet to be dealt with (especially unfilled customer orders for products or services))
S: (n) battery (a collection of related things intended for use together) "took a battery of achievement tests"
S: (n) block (a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit) "he reserved a large block of seats"; "he held a large block of the company's stock"
S: (n) book, rule book (a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made) "they run things by the book around here"
S: (n) book (a collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game)
S: (n) bottle collection (a collection of bottles) "her bottle collection is arranged on glass shelves in the window"
S: (n) bunch, lot, caboodle (any collection in its entirety) "she bought the whole caboodle"
S: (n) collage (any collection of diverse things) "a collage of memories"
S: (n) content, contents ((usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something) "he emptied the contents of his pockets"; "the two groups were similar in content"
S: (n) ensemble, tout ensemble (an assemblage of parts or details (as in a work of art) considered as forming a whole)
S: (n) corpus (a collection of writings) "he edited the Hemingway corpus"
S: (n) crop (a collection of people or things appearing together) "the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas"
S: (n) tenantry (tenants of an estate considered as a group)
S: (n) findings (a collection of tools and other articles used by an artisan to make jewelry or clothing or shoes)
S: (n) flagging (flagstones collectively) "there was a pile of flagging waiting to be laid in place"
S: (n) flinders (bits and splinters and fragments) "it would have shattered in flinders long before it did that damage"
S: (n) pack (a complete collection of similar things)
S: (n) hand, deal (the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time) "I didn't hold a good hand all evening"; "he kept trying to see my hand"
S: (n) mass (an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people))
S: (n) combination (a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities)
S: (n) congregation (an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together) "a congregation of children pleaded for his autograph"; "a great congregation of birds flew over"
S: (n) hit parade (a collection of the best or most popular people or items of a given kind)
S: (n) kludge (a badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose (often used to refer to computing systems or software that has been badly put together))
S: (n) prosecution (the lawyers acting for the state to put the case against the defendant)
S: (n) planting (a collection of plants (trees or shrubs or flowers) in a particular area) "the landscape architect suggested a small planting in the northwest corner"
S: (n) signage (signs collectively (especially commercial signs or posters)) "there will be signage displayed at each post"
S: (n) generally accepted accounting principles, GAAP (a collection of rules and procedures and conventions that define accepted accounting practice; includes broad guidelines as well as detailed procedures)
S: (n) South America (the nations of the South American continent collectively) "South America is an important market for goods from the United States"
S: (n) Oort cloud ((astronomy) a hypothetical huge collection of comets orbiting the sun far beyond the orbit of Pluto; perturbations (as by other stars) can upset a comet's orbit and may send it tumbling toward the sun)
S: (n) galaxy (a splendid assemblage (especially of famous people))
S: (n) galaxy, extragalactic nebula ((astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust) "`extragalactic nebula' is a former name for `galaxy'"
S: (n) fleet (a group of warships organized as a tactical unit)
S: (n) fleet (group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership)
S: (n) fleet (group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership)
S: (n) repertoire, repertory (a collection of works (plays, songs, operas, ballets) that an artist or company can perform and do perform for short intervals on a regular schedule)
S: (n) repertory, repertoire (the entire range of skills or aptitudes or devices used in a particular field or occupation) "the repertory of the supposed feats of mesmerism"; "has a large repertory of dialects and characters"
S: (n) vegetation, flora, botany (all the plant life in a particular region or period) "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China"
S: (n) law, jurisprudence (the collection of rules imposed by authority) "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
S: (n) menagerie (a collection of live animals for study or display)
S: (n) data, information (a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn) "statistical data"
S: (n) ana (a collection of anecdotes about a person or place)
S: (n) mail, post (any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered) "your mail is on the table"; "is there any post for me?"; "she was opening her post"
S: (n) treasure (a collection of precious things) "the trunk held all her meager treasures"
S: (n) treasure trove (any collection of valuables that is discovered) "her book was a treasure trove of new ideas"; "mother's attic was a treasure trove when we were looking for antiques"
S: (n) trinketry (trinkets and other ornaments of dress collectively)
S: (n) smithereens (a collection of small fragments considered as a whole) "Berlin was bombed to smithereens"; "his hopes were dashed to smithereens"; "I wanted to smash him to smithereens"; "the toilet bowl ws blown to smithereens"
S: (n) Nag Hammadi, Nag Hammadi Library (a collection of 13 ancient papyrus codices translated from Greek into Coptic that were discovered by farmers near the town of Nag Hammadi in 1945; the codices contain 45 distinct works including the chief sources of firsthand knowledge of Gnosticism)
S: (n) Wise Men, Magi ((New Testament) the sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born; the Gospel According to Matthew says they were guided by a star and brought gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh; because there were three gifts it is usually assumed that there were three of them)
S: (n) wardrobe (collection of clothing belonging to one person)
S: (n) wardrobe (collection of costumes belonging to a theatrical company)
S: (n) population, universe ((statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn) "it is an estimate of the mean of the population"
S: (n) armamentarium (the collection of equipment and methods used in the practice of medicine)
S: (n) backlog (an accumulation of jobs not done or materials not processed that are yet to be dealt with (especially unfilled customer orders for products or services))
S: (n) battery (a collection of related things intended for use together) "took a battery of achievement tests"
S: (n) block (a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit) "he reserved a large block of seats"; "he held a large block of the company's stock"
S: (n) book, rule book (a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made) "they run things by the book around here"
S: (n) book (a collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game)
S: (n) bottle collection (a collection of bottles) "her bottle collection is arranged on glass shelves in the window"
S: (n) bunch, lot, caboodle (any collection in its entirety) "she bought the whole caboodle"
S: (n) collage (any collection of diverse things) "a collage of memories"
S: (n) content, contents ((usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something) "he emptied the contents of his pockets"; "the two groups were similar in content"
S: (n) ensemble, tout ensemble (an assemblage of parts or details (as in a work of art) considered as forming a whole)
S: (n) corpus (a collection of writings) "he edited the Hemingway corpus"
S: (n) crop (a collection of people or things appearing together) "the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas"
S: (n) tenantry (tenants of an estate considered as a group)
S: (n) findings (a collection of tools and other articles used by an artisan to make jewelry or clothing or shoes)
S: (n) flagging (flagstones collectively) "there was a pile of flagging waiting to be laid in place"
S: (n) flinders (bits and splinters and fragments) "it would have shattered in flinders long before it did that damage"
S: (n) pack (a complete collection of similar things)
S: (n) hand, deal (the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time) "I didn't hold a good hand all evening"; "he kept trying to see my hand"
S: (n) mass (an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people))
S: (n) combination (a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities)
S: (n) congregation (an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together) "a congregation of children pleaded for his autograph"; "a great congregation of birds flew over"
S: (n) hit parade (a collection of the best or most popular people or items of a given kind)
S: (n) kludge (a badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose (often used to refer to computing systems or software that has been badly put together))
S: (n) prosecution (the lawyers acting for the state to put the case against the defendant)
S: (n) planting (a collection of plants (trees or shrubs or flowers) in a particular area) "the landscape architect suggested a small planting in the northwest corner"
S: (n) signage (signs collectively (especially commercial signs or posters)) "there will be signage displayed at each post"
S: (n) generally accepted accounting principles, GAAP (a collection of rules and procedures and conventions that define accepted accounting practice; includes broad guidelines as well as detailed procedures)
S: (n) South America (the nations of the South American continent collectively) "South America is an important market for goods from the United States"
S: (n) Oort cloud ((astronomy) a hypothetical huge collection of comets orbiting the sun far beyond the orbit of Pluto; perturbations (as by other stars) can upset a comet's orbit and may send it tumbling toward the sun)
S: (n) galaxy (a splendid assemblage (especially of famous people))
S: (n) galaxy, extragalactic nebula ((astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust) "`extragalactic nebula' is a former name for `galaxy'"
S: (n) fleet (a group of warships organized as a tactical unit)
S: (n) fleet (group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership)
S: (n) fleet (group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership)
S: (n) repertoire, repertory (a collection of works (plays, songs, operas, ballets) that an artist or company can perform and do perform for short intervals on a regular schedule)
S: (n) repertory, repertoire (the entire range of skills or aptitudes or devices used in a particular field or occupation) "the repertory of the supposed feats of mesmerism"; "has a large repertory of dialects and characters"
S: (n) vegetation, flora, botany (all the plant life in a particular region or period) "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China"
S: (n) law, jurisprudence (the collection of rules imposed by authority) "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
S: (n) menagerie (a collection of live animals for study or display)
S: (n) data, information (a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn) "statistical data"
S: (n) ana (a collection of anecdotes about a person or place)
S: (n) mail, post (any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered) "your mail is on the table"; "is there any post for me?"; "she was opening her post"
S: (n) treasure (a collection of precious things) "the trunk held all her meager treasures"
S: (n) treasure trove (any collection of valuables that is discovered) "her book was a treasure trove of new ideas"; "mother's attic was a treasure trove when we were looking for antiques"
S: (n) trinketry (trinkets and other ornaments of dress collectively)
S: (n) smithereens (a collection of small fragments considered as a whole) "Berlin was bombed to smithereens"; "his hopes were dashed to smithereens"; "I wanted to smash him to smithereens"; "the toilet bowl ws blown to smithereens"
S: (n) Nag Hammadi, Nag Hammadi Library (a collection of 13 ancient papyrus codices translated from Greek into Coptic that were discovered by farmers near the town of Nag Hammadi in 1945; the codices contain 45 distinct works including the chief sources of firsthand knowledge of Gnosticism)
S: (n) Wise Men, Magi ((New Testament) the sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born; the Gospel According to Matthew says they were guided by a star and brought gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh; because there were three gifts it is usually assumed that there were three of them)