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单词 omnium-gatherum
释义

omnium-gatherum

English

Etymology

Dog Latin, from Latin omnium (of all) and gather + -um, suggesting a collection of everything.

Noun

omnium-gatherum (plural omnium-gatherums or omnium-gathera)

  1. A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.
    • 1864, Robert Kerr, The Gentleman's House, page 342:
      We live in the era of Omnium-Gatherum; all the world's a museum, and men and women are its students. To design any building in England nowadays is therefore to work under the eye, so to speak, of the Society of Antiquaries.

Synonyms

  • farrago, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, ragbag
  • See also Thesaurus:hodgepodge

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