MISCELLANY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does miscellany mean? 

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

1. a collection containing a variety of sorts of things

2. an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.

  Familiarity information: MISCELLANY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISCELLANY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A collection containing a variety of sorts of things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

a veritable smorgasbord of religions

Hypernyms ("miscellany" 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 "miscellany"):

grab bag (an assortment of miscellaneous items)

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

range (a variety of different things or activities)

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

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

alphabet soup (a confusing assortment)

sampler (an assortment of various samples)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

florilegium; garland; miscellany

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

anthology (a collection of selected literary passages)

 Context examples 

Now and again he reached out and added a bundle of checks to the flying miscellany that soared through the roof and out of sight in a tremendous circle.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Under that, the miscellany began—a quadrant, a tin canikin, several sticks of tobacco, two brace of very handsome pistols, a piece of bar silver, an old Spanish watch and some other trinkets of little value and mostly of foreign make, a pair of compasses mounted with brass, and five or six curious West Indian shells.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)