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noun
A collection of varying but related items.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: categorization, categorisation, classification, compartmentalization, compartmentalisation
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: grouping
Narrower terms: indexing, reclassification, relegation, stratification, taxonomy, typology
noun
a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: mixture, mixed bag, miscellany, miscellanea, variety, salmagundi, smorgasbord, potpourri, motley
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
Narrower terms: grab bag, witches' brew, witches' broth, witch's brew, range, selection, odds and ends, oddments, melange, farrago, ragbag, mishmash, mingle-mangle, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, gallimaufry, omnium-gatherum, alphabet soup, sampler
History
Etymology tree English assort Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English assortment From assort + -ment.
Across languages
31 source translations are retained for this English entry.
