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assortment

UK/əˈsɔːtmənt/

assortment noun: a collection of varying but related items.

Noun

assortment (plural assortments)

  1. A collection of varying but related items.
    • This box has an assortment of chocolates. There's a picture on the cover so you know which is which.
    • The tool and die department stocks various hardware assortments, such as cap screws in most thread sizes and assorted lengths.

assortment meaning in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada

assortment in Tamil

ஒவ்வினப்படல், வகையடைவு, வகைப்படுதல், வகைப்படுத்துதல், வகுப்பமைவு, தொகுதி

assortment in Telugu

కలగలుపు

assortment in Malayalam

mixed bag, mixture, variety
മിശ്രിതം, പലവസ്തുക്കളുടെ കൂട്ടം, വ്യാമിശ്രവസ്തു, വായകം, കൂട്ടം, സമാഹാരം

assortment in Kannada

ಹಂಚಿಕೆ

Examples of assortment in a sentence

  • The garage was filled with a random assortment of odds and ends.
  • They carried an assortment of gardening implements in the truck.
  • Their most popular product, an assortment of ales, is packaged such that there are always at least two bottles of India pale ale in any case.

All 40 example sentences with assortment

Synonyms of assortment

Forms of assortment

pluralassortments

Plural of assortment: assortments

Origin of assortment

From assort + -ment.

Words formed from assortment

Questions about assortment

What does assortment mean?
Assortment means a collection of varying but related items.
What is assortment in Tamil?
Assortment in Tamil is ஒவ்வினப்படல், வகையடைவு, வகைப்படுதல். See Assortment meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is assortment?
Assortment is a noun.
How do you pronounce assortment?
Assortment is pronounced /əˈsɔːtmənt/ (UK).
What is the plural of assortment?
The plural of assortment is assortments.

Words near assortment in the dictionary

  1. assortest
  2. assorteth
  3. assortiment
  4. assortiments
  5. assorting
  6. assortment
  7. assortments
  8. assorts
  9. assosymmetric
  10. Assouan
  11. Assouline

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: assortment (page history and authors); assortment (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); assortment (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); assortment (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); assortment (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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