bottle collection
- noun
:
colección de botellas
- The museum showcases an impressive bottle collection from around the world.
Examples
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Her bottle collection includes vintage soda bottles.
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He started his bottle collection as a teenager and now has hundreds.
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Her bottle collection features rare glass bottles from the 19th century.
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Do you have a bottle collection at home?
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Marika's passion for design inspired her to start a bottle collection that showcased colorful vintage bottles.
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He displayed his extensive bottle collection on a shelf, turning the living room into a mini museum.
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During her travels, she picked up unique bottles for her bottle collection, each telling a different story.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the activity of gathering bottles' is directly and transparently built from the constituents 'bottle' (a container) and 'collection' (the act of gathering), so a learner who knows those words can infer the MWE. This noun+noun compounding is a common, compositional pattern (often meaning either a set of bottles or the activity of collecting them), making the expression immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Bottle collection comes from the simple image of people saving and showing interesting glass bottles. People would keep old bottles on a shelf like small treasures and a collection is a group of these items, so the phrase means 'a set of bottles kept as a hobby or decoration'.
