assortment

English

Etymology

From assort +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈsɔːtmənt/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

assortment (plural assortments)

1. A collection of varying but related items.

   This box has an assortment of chocolates. There's a picture on the cover so you know which is which.

Synonyms

• diversity, Whitman's sampler
• See also Thesaurus:hodgepodge

Derived terms

• reassortment

 

Translations

collection of varying but related items

• Bulgarian: избор (bg) (izbor), асортимент (bg) (asortiment), сортиране (bg) (sortirane)
• Catalan: assortiment m
• Czech: kolekce (cs) f
• Dutch: assortiment (nl) n
• Finnish: valikoima (fi), lajitelma (fi), joukko (fi)
• French: assortiment (fr) m
• Georgian: ასორტი (asorṭi)
• German: Auswahl (de) f, Sortiment (de) n, ausgewählte Zusammenstellung f
• Hungarian: választék (hu)
• Ido: sortaro, asortajo (io), asorto (io)
• Italian: assortimento (it) m, varietà (it) f
• Korean: 모음 (mo'eum)
• Polish: asortyment (pl) m
• Portuguese: sortimento m
• Russian: ассортиме́нт (ru) m (assortimént), набо́р (ru) m (nabór), колле́кция (ru) f (kollékcija)
• Scottish Gaelic: measgachadh m
• Spanish: surtido (es) m, variedad (es) f, colección (es) f
• Ukrainian: асортиме́нт (uk) m (asortymént)