ASSORTMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does assortment mean? 

• ASSORTMENT (noun)
  The noun ASSORTMENT has 2 senses:

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

  Familiarity information: ASSORTMENT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASSORTMENT (noun)

Meaning:

A collection containing a variety of sorts of things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

smorgasbord; salmagundi; potpourri; motley; mixed bag; miscellany; miscellanea; assortment; variety; mixture

Context examples:

a great assortment of cars was on display / he had a variety of disorders / a veritable smorgasbord of religions

Hypernyms ("assortment" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "assortment"):

alphabet soup (a confusing assortment)

farrago; gallimaufry; hodgepodge; hotchpotch; melange; mingle-mangle; mishmash; oddments; odds and ends; omnium-gatherum; ragbag (a motley assortment of things)

selection (an assortment of things from which a choice can be made)

range (a variety of different things or activities)

witch's brew; witches' brew; witches' broth (a fearsome mixture)

grab bag (an assortment of miscellaneous items)

sampler (an assortment of various samples)

Meaning:

The act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

classification; assortment; compartmentalization; compartmentalisation; categorization; categorisation

Hypernyms ("assortment" is a kind of...):

grouping (the activity of putting things together in groups)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "assortment"):

indexing (the act of classifying and providing an index in order to make items easier to retrieve)

reclassification (classifying something again (usually in a new category))

relegation (the act of assigning (someone or something) to a particular class or category)

stratification (the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata)

taxonomy (practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships)

typology (classification according to general type)