compilation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: com=pi=la=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

compilation, n. [L. compilatio: cf. F. compilation.].

•  The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents.  [1913 Webster]

  "His [Goldsmith's] compilations are widely distinguished from the compilations of ordinary bookmakers."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

compilation, n.
1 a the act of compiling. b the process of being compiled.
2 something compiled, esp. a book etc. composed of separate articles, stories, etc.

Etymology

ME f. OF f. L compilatio -onis (as COMPILE)

THESAURUS

compilation

Festschrift, album, ana, analects, anthology, aquarium, beauties, body, canon, chrestomathy, collectanea, collected works, collection, complete works, corpus, data, delectus, florilegium, flowers, fund, garden, garland, holdings, library, menagerie, miscellanea, miscellany, museum, omnibus, photograph album, quotation book, raw data, scrapbook, symposium, treasure, zoo

ROGET THESAURUS

compilation

Compendium

N compend, compendium, abstract, precis, epitome, multum in parvo, analysis, pandect, digest, sum and substance, brief, abridgment, summary, apercu, draft, minute, note, excerpt, synopsis, textbook, conspectus, outlines, syllabus, contents, heads, prospectus, album, scrap book, note book, memorandum book, commonplace book, extracts, excerpta, cuttings, fugitive pieces, fugitive writing, spicilegium, flowers, anthology, collectanea, analecta, compilation, recapitulation, resume, review, abbreviation, abbreviature, contraction, shortening, compression, compendious, synoptic, analectic, abrege, abridged, variorum, in short, in epitome, in substance, in few words, it lies in a nutshell.

Assemblage

N assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.