In fact, library is listed as the synonym of collection. So there is a connotation of all the items of a collection, which was preserved in the specific meaning with which it is used today (performances).įor libraries, however, if you want to refer to the amount itself, better use collectionĪn accumulation of objects gathered for study, comparison, or exhibition or as a hobby ( M-W) Etymonline explains:ġ550s, " an index, list, catalogue," from Late Latin repertorium " inventory, list," from Latin repertus, past participle of reperire "to find, get, invent," from re-, here perhaps an intensive prefix, + parire, archaic form of paerere "produce, bring forth" (from PIE root *pere- (1) "to produce, procure"). The word repertoire, with its other variant repertory, did once have the meaning of an inventory. There are no exact synonyms - there are no pairs of words where you can replace one with the other in all circumstances.īut in the end, I don't think you want to use 'repertoire' to describe a library. And that is the case for all synonym lists in thesauruses. As to synonyms, repertoire and collection are very close, but that doesn't mean they can be replaced one for the other.Maybe with some magical realism, the library personified 'reads' the books out loud as a performance? But of course everything can be stretched given the right context and a little poetic license.So one might say "The research library has a collection of foreign newspapers." (it has a number of other collections). Larger libraries may include a subset that is called a collection and is not books. So it is strange for it to also -have- a collection.
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