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Meaning of miscellany in English

miscellany
noun [ S ]
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/mɪˈsel.ə.ni/ us
/ˈmɪs.ə.leɪ.ni/

miscellany noun [S] (MIXTURE)

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a mixture of different things:
The museum houses a fascinating miscellany of nautical treasures.
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Variety and mixtures
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miscellany noun [S] (BOOK)

a book containing a collection of pieces of writing either by different writers or by one writer on different subjects:
She's just finished editing "A Miscellany of English Cookery".
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Groups and collections of things
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(Definition of miscellany from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of miscellany

miscellany
The contents, unsurprisingly, constitute something of a miscellany.
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The editors in their introduction try heroically to pull the miscellany together, and do provide something of the general overview conspicuously absent from the collection as a whole.
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Outside the public utility section, there is a miscellany of properties, some, but only a few, of which have been mentioned in this debate.
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To put on his shoulders and into his hands the miscellany of functions not directly connected with his main functions is open to great objection.
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I think that those 6 million people were voting for a miscellany of reasons.
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I can comment on it only in sections, because it is a miscellany; it is a hotchpotch of various odds and ends.
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I know of cases in which as many as 10 professionals have offered a miscellany of different and sometimes hostile opinions to each other.
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They are reserved in this country by a miscellany of enactments and rules of law and practice which have evolved over the years.
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She said that there was a miscellany of different opinions: how many, and who?
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I wish to make a few comments in response to the miscellany of "running repairs".
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Let us imagine that the rest of its assets are in a miscellany of investments.
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A miscellany of clauses deals with offences, proceedings, regulations, entry into force, and repeal of existing legislation.
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They took over a vast miscellany of undertakings.
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We want labels not to be a long miscellany of chemical and other substances that are included because those ingredients are there.
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The reasons were given in a miscellany of mixed metaphors.
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Translations of miscellany

in Chinese (Traditional)
混合物, 混合物，大雜燴, 書籍…
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in Chinese (Simplified)
混合物, 混合物，大杂烩, 书籍…
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in Spanish
miscelánea, antología…
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miscelânea, coletânea…
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collection (hétéroclite)…
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derleme…
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mengeling…
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směs, různorodá sbírka…
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samling…
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aneka ragam…
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sự hỗn hợp…
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zbiór, mieszanina…
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blandning, samling…
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kumpulan berbagai-bagai…
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das Gemisch…
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diverse, potpurri, blanding…
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суміш, мішанина…
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