Collection
Collection noun - An organized group of objects acquired and maintained for study, exhibition, or personal pleasure.
Garbage and collection are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Garbage" instead a noun "Collection".
Garbage
Garbage noun - Discarded or useless material.
Collection and garbage are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Collection" instead a noun "Garbage".
Nearby Word: garb
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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When Selina Kyle snaps and becomes Catwoman, one of the things she does is putting her collection of childish plush toys down her garbage disposal.
Source: Girls Love Stuffed Animals -
He's so mad that he rage quits video games entirely, shoving his whole collection into garbage bags and leaving them at the dump, then discarding his Nerd shirt in a field.
Source: 10-Minute Retirement -
Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash has "Rife's Raft", a gigantic, cobbled-together collection of floating garbage in the Pacific Ocean inhabited by huge numbers of refugees, mostly from Asia.
Source: City on the Water
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