MISCELLANY | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of miscellany in English

(Definition of miscellany from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of miscellany

miscellany
Joining them are notepads and pens and other miscellany hand-picked to reflect the movie's 1965 setting.
From NOLA.com
There certainly was something cool about sitting on the bridge of a spacecraft, looking out at planets, stars, enemy ships, and other galactic miscellany.
From WIRED
Their garish colors are framed with the furniture and miscellany of the homes they decorate.
From Wired
But the consumer credit bureaus were also depositories of a whole miscellany of information.
The eccentric miscellany of materials share one important quality: they are tactile, textured, and exist in the third dimension.
From WIRED
Smoking culture, its hardware and miscellany, tactile and once so familiar, is on the verge of extinction.
Thankfully those five were terrific, flush with beautiful imagery, much of it captured and cultivated by professional photographers, talented artists and enthusiasts of eclectic cultural miscellany.
From TIME
He created a miscellany of disparate stories presented under a single title, but not threaded together as continuations of each other.
Some aspects of metallogenesis are included in a final miscellany section.
Thus, the terms alone are insufficient evidence to indicate the trinitarian model used in this miscellany.
The rest of the lines deal with a miscellany of subjects including hadith.
His satires seem to have been a sort of literary miscellany which included such of his writings as could not conveniently be classified elsewhere.
She covered fuel, light, and small miscellanies with another hundred.
But those freemen were by no means a miscellany of mutually indifferent and disconnected units.
Our common school course has become a batch of miscellanies.
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Translations of miscellany

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