The action or an act of gathering together; assembly, congregation. Also: a collection.

The result of congregating; a gathering, assemblage, or company. of men.

With preceding adjective. As a mass noun. Now only following in (formerly also †to).

transferred. A company or number to look after; a ‘lot’ of persons or things of one kind.

A group or collection of objects; a number of things associated or placed together.

An assembly, assemblage, gathering.

figurative. A collection, ‘lot’ (of things material or immaterial); usually either with contemptuous implication, or with allusion to a…

A collection, parcel, set, etc., of things.

A gathering, collection; spec. a harvest or crop. Also figurative and in extended use.

transferred. A company of any kind; rarely, a collection of objects.

transferred. An assemblage of animals or things.

A collected mass, a collection; a concretion.

An assemblage of things brought together.

An accumulation, cluster, or collection of similar objects or immaterial things.

The action of bringing together or collecting; concrete a collection.

A collection or cluster, as of grapes.

A collection of things; = assemblage, n. 4.

concrete. That which is collected; a collection, gathering. Obsolete.

A number of things gathered together; a collection, group, cluster.

figurative and in figurative contexts. A collection of people or things considered or treated as though bound together in a group or class. Cf. bunch…

In extended use (usually derogatory): any large or motley collection of things, esp. outmoded or useless ones; the repository of such a collection.

Chiefly English regional (northern). A great quantity or number; a collection; a medley. Now rare.

transferred. A crowd (of persons); a heap, bunch, bundle (of things).

transferred and figurative. Any association or collection.