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amassment
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amassment
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accumulation |
| Synonyms: | acquiring, aggregation, amassing, assemblage, collection, cumulation, gathering, mass |
| Main Entry: | accumulation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gathering or amassing |
| Synonyms: | accession, accretion, addition, agglomeration, aggrandizement, aggregation, amassment, augmentation, build-up, chunk, collecting, collection, conglomeration, enlargement, gob, growth, heap, hoarding, hunk, increase, inflation, intensification, mass, multiplication, pile, quantity, stack, stock, store, trove, up, upping |
| Antonyms: | dispersal, dispersion, dissipation, scattering |
| Main Entry: | collection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group, accumulation |
| Synonyms: | accumulating, acquiring, acquisition, agglomeration, amassing, amassment, anthology, assemblage, assembling, assembly, assortment, batch, bringing together, caboodle, clump, cluster, collation, combination, company, compilation, congeries, congregation, convocation, crowd, cumulation, digest, gathering, heap, hoard, kit, levy, lot, mass, medley, mess, miscellany, mobilization, muster, number, obtaining, omnibus, pile, quantity, securing, selection, set, stack, stock, stockpile, store |
| Main Entry: | conglomeration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accumulation, potpourri |
| Synonyms: | agglomeration, aggregate, aggregation, amassment, assortment, collection, combination, combo, composite, cumulation, everything but the kitchen sink, hoard, hodge-podge, mass, medley, miscellany, mishmash, mixed bag, trove |
| Main Entry: | heap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pile, accumulation |
| Synonyms: | a lot, abundance, agglomeration, aggregation, amassment, assemblage, bank, batch, bulk, bunch, bundle, cargo, clump, cluster, collection, concentration, congeries, deposit, fullness, gathering, gobs, great deal, harvest, haul, hill, hoard, jumble, load, lot, lots, lump, mass, million, mint, mound, mountain, much, ocean, oodles*, plenty, pot, profusion, quantity, scad, stack, stock, stockpile, store, sum, thousand, ton, total, trillion, volume, whole |
| Antonyms: | bit |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hoard |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stockpile |
| Synonyms: | abundance, accumulation, agglomeration, aggregation, amassment, backlog, cache, collection, conglomeration, cumulation, fund, garner, heap, inventory, mass, nest egg, pile, reserve, reservoir, riches, stock, store, supply, treasure, treasure-trove, trove, wealth |
| Notes: | a hoard is a collection or the action that creates one; a horde is a crowd, sometimes unfriendly |
| Antonyms: | debt |
| Main Entry: | pile |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heap, collection |
| Synonyms: | accumulation, aggregate, aggregation, amassment, assemblage, assortment, bank, barrel, buildup, chunk, conglomeration, drift, gob, great deal, hill, hoard, hunk, jumble, lump, mass, mound, mountain, much, ocean, oodles*, pack, peck, pyramid, quantity, shock, stack, stockpile |
| Antonyms: | ditch, hole |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | congeries |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accumulation |
| Synonyms: | aggregation, amassment, assemblage, collection, gathering, heap, hodgepodge, pile |
| Main Entry: | cumulation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accumulation |
| Synonyms: | amassment, assemblage, collection, congeries, gathering, heap, mass, pile, stack, stockpile |
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