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assortment
CIDE DICTIONARY
assortment, n. [Cf. F. assortiment.].
- Act of assorting, or distributing into sorts, kinds, or classes. [1913 Webster]
- A collection or quantity of things distributed into kinds or sorts; a number of things assorted. [1913 Webster]
- A collection containing a variety of sorts or kinds adapted to various wants, demands, or purposes; as, an assortment of goods. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
assortment, n. a set of various sorts of things or people put together; a mixed collection.
THESAURUS
assortment
agglomeration, all sorts, allay, alleviate, appease, array, assemblage, assuage, batch, broad spectrum, calm, categorization, category, class, classification, collectanea, collection, conciliate, conglomerate, conglomeration, culling, ease, farrago, gallimaufry, gradation, group, grouping, hash, hodgepodge, hotchpot, hotchpotch, jumble, lighten, lot, magpie, mash, medley, melange, mess, mingle-mangle, miscellanea, miscellany, mishmash, mitigate, mix, mixed bag, mixture, mollify, oddments, odds and ends, olio, olla podrida, omnium-gatherum, pasticcio, pastiche, patchwork, placate, placement, potpourri, propitiate, ranking, relax, salad, salmagundi, sauce, scramble, screening, selection, set, sifting, slack, slacken, soothe, sorting, sorting out, stew, subordination, sundries, sweeten, taxonomy, triage, variety, what you willROGET THESAURUS
assortment
Arrangement
N arrangement, plan, preparation, disposal, disposition, collocation, allocation, distribution, sorting, assortment, allotment, apportionment, taxis, taxonomy, syntaxis, graduation, organization, grouping, tabulation, analysis, classification, clustering, division, digestion, digest, synopsis, syntagma, table, atlas, file, database, register, organism, architecture, sieve, riddle, screen, sorter, arranged, embattled, in battle array, cut and dried, methodical, orderly, regular, systematic, In vast cumbrous array.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.Class
N class, division, category, categorema, head, order, section, department, subdepartment, province, domain, kind, sort, genus, species, variety, family, order, kingdom, race, tribe, caste, sept, clan, breed, type, subtype, kit, sect, set, subset, assortment, feather, kidney, suit, range, gender, sex, kin, manner, description, denomination, designation, rubric, character, stamp predicament, indication, particularization, selection, specification, similarity.For further exploring for "assortment" in Webster Dictionary Online