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Word: Collation
Speech Type: Noun
Middle English: via Old French from Latin collatio(n-), from conferre (see confer). Originally (in the plural) the term denoted John Cassian's Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium ‘Conferences of, or with, the Egyptian Hermits’ (AD 415–20), from which a reading would be given in Benedictine communities prior to a light meal (see collation (sense 2))
kəˈleɪʃn
kɒˈleɪʃn
the action of collating something
Short Definition:action of collating something
Examples:- data management and collation
a light informal meal
Short Definition:light informal meal
Examples:- lunch was a collation of salami, olives, and rye bread
- a cold collation
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