plural noun
Groups of similar things that people have gathered and keep.
Her collections of postcards fill two shelves.
The museum displayed several collections of paintings.
American English
How to pronounce collections
nounB1Common word
kuhLEHKshnz
/kʰəˈlɛk.ʃn̩z/
3 syllables · Stress the second syllable.
Form of collection
Groups of similar things that people have gathered and keep.
Practice out loudMeanings & examples
plural noun
Amounts of money gathered from people for special purposes, especially to help people or organizations.
The church collections paid for the new roof.
Several collections were organized for families after the fire.
Good to know
In this meaning, Spanish usually uses colectas or recaudaciones, not colecciones.
plural noun
Separate processes of gathering information or things from different places.
The data collections for the two studies took six months.
Garbage collections are delayed on holidays.
Useful expressions
to gather money from people for a special purpose
The neighbors took up a collection for Maria.
the organized gathering of information
The survey is part of our data collection.
the service that takes household waste away
Garbage collection comes every Tuesday.