accumulationnoun [ U or C ]
uk/əˌkjuː.mjəˈleɪ.ʃən/us/əˌkjuː.mjəˈleɪ.ʃən/C2 an amount of something that has been collected:
Despite this accumulation of evidence, the government persisted in doing nothing.
Accumulations of sand can be formed by the action of waves on coastal beaches.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Masses and large amounts of things
- an embarrassment of riches idiom
- any number of things idiom
- backlog
- battery
- boatload
- bolus
- bucketload
- clot
- deluge
- fund
- lashing
- panoply
- plethora
- predominance
- preponderance
- profusion
- sheet
- shower
- thousand
- tidal wave
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