omnium-gatherum
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editDog Latin, from Latin omnium (“of all”) and gather + -um, suggesting a collection of everything.
Pronunciation
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editomnium-gatherum (plural omnium-gatherums or omnium-gathera)
- A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hodgepodge
- 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.
Translations
editcollection of miscellaneous things — see hodgepodge
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