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collation

/kəˈleɪʃən/

Sounds like colation · Rhymes with -eɪʃən

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From Middle English collacioun, collation, from Old French collation, from Latin collatiō, from the participle stem of cōnferō (“to bring together”).

noun collations

countable, uncountable The act of bringing things together and comparing them; comparison. November 8, 1717, The Bishop of Rochester, letter to Alexander Pope I return you your Milton, which, upon collation, I find to be revised, and augmented, in several places
countable, uncountable The act of collating pages or sheets of a book, or from printing etc.
countable, uncountable A collection, a gathering. It's fantastic, as is so much of Forgiveness Rock Record, a collation of so many talents that it's practically bursting at the seams.
countable, obsolete, uncountable A conference or consultation.
countable, in plural, uncountable The Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium by John Cassian, an important ecclesiastical work. (Now usually with capital initial.) A certain abbot, named Moses, thus testifieth of himself in the Collations of Cassianus, that he so afflicted himself with much fasting and watching, that sometimes, for two or three days together, not only he felt no appetite to eat, but also had no remembrance of any meat at all […]
countable, uncountable A reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monasteries. When the hymn was over the Sacrist was to strike the table for collation, and the Deacon to enter with the Gospel, preceded by three converts, carrying the candlestick and censer.
countable, uncountable The light meal taken by monks after the reading service mentioned above.
countable, uncountable Any light meal or snack. Her first glance was one of triumph—her next was one of mingled admiration and gratitude for Louis; and, accepting his offered hand, they led the way to the banquet prepared in the Palais Orion,—a favourite garden-house, where they often had collations when the party was but small, which was the cas
countable, uncountable The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
countable, uncountable The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance.
Similar: hotchpot
Scotland, countable, uncountable An heir's right to combine the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred.
countable, obsolete, uncountable The act of conferring or bestowing. Not by the collation of the king […] but by the people.
countable, uncountable Presentation to a benefice.
countable, uncountable The specification of how character data should be treated stored and sorted.
countable, uncountable The process of establishing a corrected text of a work by comparing differing manuscripts or editions of it; also used to describe the work resulting from such a process.

verb collations · collationing · collationed

obsolete To partake of a collation, or light meal. I […] collationed in Spring Garden.

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noun bringing together

Español	colación

noun light meal

Español	colación
Português	pequeno almoço
Ελληνικά	κολατσιό kolatsió

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@misc{collation_2026,
  title = {collation},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/collation},
  urldate = {2026-11-05}
}