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miscellanea
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun miscellanea has 1 sense
- miscellanea(n = noun.group) assortment, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety - a collection containing a variety of sorts of things; "a great assortment of cars was on display"; "he had a variety of disorders"; "a veritable smorgasbord of religions" is a kind of accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection
has particulars: grab bag, witch's brew, witches' brew, witches' broth, range, selection, farrago, gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag, alphabet soup, sampler
CIDE DICTIONARY
miscellanea, n. pl. [L. See Miscellany.].
A collection of miscellaneous matters; matters of various kinds. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
miscellanea, n.pl.
1 a literary miscellany.
2 a collection of miscellaneous items.
1 a literary miscellany.
2 a collection of miscellaneous items.
Etymology
L neut. pl. (as MISCELLANEOUS)
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