Collection

1. n. The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
2. n. The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.
3. n. That which is collected
4. n. A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons.
5. n. A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings.
6. n. That which is obtained in payment of demands.
7. n. An accumulation of any substance.
8. n. The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.