Miscellany
[mɪ'selənɪ] or ['mɪsəleni]
Definition
(n.) A mass or mixture of various things; a medley; esp., a collection of compositions on various subjects.
(a.) Miscellaneous; heterogeneous.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Mixture, medley, diversity, variety, olio, farrago, salmagundi, hodge-podge, hotch-potch, mish-mash, gallimaufry, MÉLANGE, miscellaneous collection, OLLA PODRIDA.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Mixture, Intermixture, jumble, medley, variety, diversity
ANT:System, collection, classification, assortment, group, selection
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Examples
- Here we may lump them together not so much as a family as a miscellany. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The earth as the home of man is humanizing and unified; the earth viewed as a miscellany of facts is scattering and imaginatively inert. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- There are, no doubt, four main groups, but each is a miscellany, and there are little groups that will not go into any of the four main divisions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Of articles collected on his various expeditions, there was such a vast miscellany that it was like the dwelling of an amiable Corsair. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- This trench struck the Bedouin miscellany as one of the most unsportsmanlike things that had ever been known in the history of the world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Will you obligingly shove that box--which you mentioned on a former occasion as containing miscellanies--towards me in the midst of the shop here? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- There's the Miscellanies of several human specimens, in the lovely compo-one behind the door'; with a nod towards the French gentleman. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- There's the Miscellanies of several human specimens,' said Venus, '(though you mightn't think it) in the box on which you're sitting. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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