omnium gatherum
/ˌɒmnɪəm ˈɡaðərəm
/noun
A collection of miscellaneous people or things: an omnium gatherum of anecdotes...
- Her modalities of alcohol usage come across as something of an omnium gatherum: precolonial, rural ceremonial, or gift exchange, rural commoditized drinking, urban working- and middle-class drinking, and urban elite drinking.
- To put it more bluntly: Did her writings exhibit any doctrine at all, or Were they simply an omnium gatherum of pious poetry, saccharine playlets, and florid ‘spiritual’ writing?
- Disrupting Time is an omnium gatherum on familiar Hauerwasian themes, ranging in style from the incisive to the outrageous to the whimsical.
Origin
Early 16th century: mock Latin, from Latin omnium 'of all' and gather + the Latin suffix -um.
- conglomeration
- Congo
- Congo, Democratic Republic of
- Congolese
- Congo red
- congrats
- congratulate
- congratulation
- congratulator
- congratulatory
- congregant
- congregate
- congregation
- congregational
- Congregationalism
- Congregationalist
- Congregation of Christian Brothers
- Congregation of the Priests of the Mission
- congress
- congress boot
- congressional
- congressionally
- Congressional Medal of Honor
- congressman
- Congress of Industrial Organizations