miscellanea

1. 1.

   a collection containing a variety of sorts of things

   “a great assortment of cars was on display”

   “he had a variety of disorders”

   “a veritable smorgasbord of religions”

   Synonymsassortmentmixturemixed bagmiscellanyvarietysalmagundismorgasbordpotpourrimotley

   Broadercollection

   Narrowergrab bagwitches' brewrangeselectionodds and endsalphabet soupsampler

Other forms of miscellanea

plural

miscellaneas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about miscellanea

What does miscellanea mean?

miscellanea means "a collection containing a variety of sorts of things".

How many syllables are in miscellanea?

miscellanea has 5 syllables: mi-scel-la-ne-a. The stress falls on "la".

What is another word for miscellanea?

Close synonyms include assortment, mixture, mixed bag, miscellany, variety. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is miscellanea a common word?

miscellanea is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.