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COIN COLLECTION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does coin collection mean?
• COIN COLLECTION (noun)
The noun COIN COLLECTION has 2 senses:
1. a collection of coins
2. the collection and study of money (and coins in particular)
Familiarity information: COIN COLLECTION used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A collection of coins
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("coin collection" is a kind of...):
accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The collection and study of money (and coins in particular)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
coin collecting; coin collection; numismatics; numismatology
Hypernyms ("coin collection" is a kind of...):
aggregation; assembling; collecting; collection (the act of gathering something together)
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