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collectanea

collectanea noun: a selective collection of passages from various sources or by various authors; an anthology.

Noun

collectanea pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) A selective collection of passages from various sources or by various authors; an anthology.
    • Some of the more familiar conjugations of verbs in the American common speech, as recorded by Charters or Lardner or derived from my own collectanea, are here set down: […][1921 [1919], H. L. Mencken, The American Language, 2nd edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →OCLC

Questions about collectanea

What does collectanea mean?
Collectanea means a selective collection of passages from various sources or by various authors; an anthology.
What part of speech is collectanea?
Collectanea is a noun.

Words near collectanea in the dictionary

  1. collect-'em-up
  2. collect-'em-ups
  3. collectability
  4. collectable
  5. collectables
  6. collectanea
  7. collectaries
  8. collectarium
  9. collectary
  10. collectathon
  11. collectathons

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