stamp collection
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2.1
- noun
- /stæmp kəˈlɛkʃən/
:
colección de sellos
- My dearie, I know you must have been discussing your stamp collection.
- father's stamp collection
- show her stamp collection
- see my stamp collection
Like I wish I could say there was some Faberge egg or some beautiful stamp collection that is so near and dear to me.
- Like I wish I could say there was some Faberge egg or some beautiful stamp collection that is so near and dear to me.
Examples
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I was working on my stamp collection anyway.
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I was working on my stamp collection all that evening in my study.
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I sold my stamp collection.
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At home in New York, probably working on your stamp collection.
Fiction book (2000) -
I even sold her stamp collection for $5 at a garage sale.
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- She's gonna show me her stamp collection.
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Now think of all the kids who'd like to have a stamp collection like yours.
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Keller, you sink a lot of dollars into your stamp collection.
Fiction book (2000) -
He had a stamp collection which he painstakingly brought out almost every night, arranging and rearranging.
Fiction book (1998) -
I was working on my stamp collection all that evening in my study.
Synonyms
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1.4
A group of similar things gathered together, like books or stamps
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Morphology
The compound is directly compositional: 'stamp' specifies the type of 'collection' and the meaning of an assembled set of postage stamps follows immediately from the constituents. This noun+noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and would be clear to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Stamp collection comes from the habit of saving small 'postage stamps' and putting the stamps together in a book called a collection. People liked the tiny pictures and kept them as a 'hobby', so today stamp collection means a group of stamps kept and arranged for pleasure.