noun ·3 syllables ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A collection of varying but related items.

   "This box has an assortment of chocolates. There's a picture on the cover so you know which is which."

2. 2
   the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type wordnet
3. 3
   a collection containing a variety of sorts of things wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

categorizationagglomerationall sortsallayalleviateappease

Example

More examples

"We also have lenses in our assortment."

Etymology

From assort + -ment.

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