omnium-gatherum

Questions about omnium-gatherum

What does omnium-gatherum mean?

omnium-gatherum means "a motley assortment of things".

How many syllables are in omnium-gatherum?

omnium-gatherum has 6 syllables and divides as om-ni-um--ga-the-rum under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for omnium-gatherum?

Close synonyms include odds and ends, oddments, melange, farrago, ragbag. 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 omnium-gatherum a common word?

omnium-gatherum 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.