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/əsˈɔrtmənt/ Listen

noun

Assortment n.

Act of assorting, or distributing into sorts, kinds, or classes.

A collection or quantity of things distributed into kinds or sorts; a number of things assorted.

A collection containing a variety of sorts or kinds adapted to various wants, demands, or purposes; as, an assortment of goods.

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Etymology of 'Assortment'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Assortment" Quotes from Famous Books

... attraction was a small boy, who had attained considerable proficiency in musical knowledge, not of any particular instrument, but anything and everything; consequently a large assortment of instruments had been collected, upon which he played. As music had called them together, it was the employment of the evening, and the hour of midnight had passed when they were summoned to ...

— Town and Country, or, Life at Home and Abroad • John S. Adams

... ground room lay a fine assortment of oddments, including old bedsteads and servants' furniture, and what looked like ancient discarded deerskin rugs. Dust lay thick over everything, and they heard the scurry of rats. A dismal place, indeed, but Dickson felt only its ...

— Huntingtower • John Buchan

... a paying guest in that house two days before the somber domestic tragedy that it roofed was as plain to him as if he had it printed and bound, and in his valise along with the compendiums of his valuable assortment. ...

— The Bondboy • George W. (George Washington) Ogden

... assented, and the usual assortment of dancing-men of all ages and sizes was brought forward for our inspection; while the Colonel, being introduced to a beaming English girl of some seventeen summers, whirled her at once into the merry maze of dancers, who were spinning easily round to the lively melody of one of Strauss's ...

— A Romance of Two Worlds • Marie Corelli

... the same angle as the fireplace, is a writing-table. A chair stands at the writing-table, its back to the fire, and in the front of the table is a well-worn settee. On the left of the settee is a smaller table, on which are an assortment of pipes, a box of cigars and another of cigarettes, a tobacco-jar, an ash-tray, and a bowl of matches; and on the left of the table is a capacious arm-chair. There is an arm-chair on either side of the fireplace; and against the right-hand ...

— The Big Drum - A Comedy in Four Acts • Arthur Pinero

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