assortment

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UK/əˈsɔːtmənt/

noun

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.”

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Meanings

nounassortment (plural assortments)

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.

    1 more example

    The tool and die department stocks various hardware assortments, such as cap screws in most thread sizes and assorted lengths.

    Synonyms: diversity, Whitman's sampler

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA collection of varying but related items.

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diversityWhitman's sampler

More synonyms by meaning

nouna collection containing a variety of sorts of things

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mixturemixed bagmiscellanymiscellaneavarietysalmagundismorgasbordpotpourrimotley
Broader
collectionaggregationaccumulation

nounthe act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type

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categorizationcategorisationclassificationcompartmentalizationcompartmentalisation
Broader
grouping
Also see
categorizationchoiceclassificationcompartmentalizationmelangemenageriemiscellaneamiscellanymixed bagmixturemotleyoddmentpotpourrisalmagundismorgasbordvarietywhitman's sampler

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

From assort + -ment.

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Bulgarian избор, асортимент
  • избор (izbor)collection of varying but related items
  • асортимент (asortiment)collection of varying but related items
  • сортиране (sortirane)collection of varying but related items
Catalan assortiment
  • assortimentcollection of varying but related items
Czech kolekce
  • kolekcecollection of varying but related items
Dutch assortiment
  • assortimentcollection of varying but related items
Finnish valikoima, lajitelma
  • valikoimacollection of varying but related items
  • lajitelmacollection of varying but related items
  • joukkocollection of varying but related items
French assortiment
  • assortimentcollection of varying but related items
German Auswahl, Sortiment
  • Auswahlcollection of varying but related items
  • Sortimentcollection of varying but related items
  • ausgewählte Zusammenstellungcollection of varying but related items
Hungarian választék
  • választékcollection of varying but related items
Italian assortimento, varietà
  • assortimentocollection of varying but related items
  • varietàcollection of varying but related items
Korean 모음
  • 모음 (mo'eum)collection of varying but related items
Polish asortyment
  • asortymentcollection of varying but related items
Portuguese sortimento
  • sortimentocollection of varying but related items
Russian ассортиме́нт, набо́р
  • ассортиме́нт (assortimént)collection of varying but related items
  • набо́р (nabór)collection of varying but related items
  • колле́кция (kollékcija)collection of varying but related items
Scottish Gaelic measgachadh
  • measgachadhcollection of varying but related items
Spanish surtido
  • surtidocollection of varying but related items
Ukrainian асортиме́нт
  • асортиме́нт (asortymént)collection of varying but related items
Cite this entry
APA

assortment. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/assortment

MLA

“assortment.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/assortment. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “assortment,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/assortment.

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