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Definition of omnium gatherum in English: omnium gatherumnoun ˌɒmnɪəm ˈɡaðərəmˌɑmniəm ˈɡæðərəm A collection of miscellaneous people or things. （人或物的）混杂集合 an omnium gatherum of anecdotes Example sentencesExamples - To put it more bluntly: Did her writings exhibit any doctrine at all, or Were they simply an omnium gatherum of pious poetry, saccharine playlets, and florid ‘spiritual’ writing?
- The omnium gatherum style of the CDF is vulnerable.
- Academe was an omnium gatherum; it was a Humboldtian article of faith that all knowledge was essentially one; the polymath amateur was the role model if not the norm.
- Disrupting Time is an omnium gatherum on familiar Hauerwasian themes, ranging in style from the incisive to the outrageous to the whimsical.
- The author of this omnium gatherum of tulip lore comments that this practice was ‘no stranger than the alchemists' own attempts to turn base metal into gold.
- Her modalities of alcohol usage come across as something of an omnium gatherum: precolonial, rural ceremonial, or gift exchange, rural commoditized drinking, urban working- and middle-class drinking, and urban elite drinking.
Synonyms mixture, blend, mingling, combination, compound, fusion, composition, concoction, brew, alloy, merger, union, amalgamation, amalgam, coalition, cross, hybrid
OriginEarly 16th century: mock Latin, from Latin omnium 'of all' and gather + the Latin suffix -um. Definition of omnium gatherum in US English: omnium gatherumnounˌämnēəm ˈɡaT͟Hərəmˌɑmniəm ˈɡæðərəm A collection of miscellaneous people or things. （人或物的）混杂集合 an omnium gatherum of anecdotes Example sentencesExamples - The author of this omnium gatherum of tulip lore comments that this practice was ‘no stranger than the alchemists' own attempts to turn base metal into gold.
- Academe was an omnium gatherum; it was a Humboldtian article of faith that all knowledge was essentially one; the polymath amateur was the role model if not the norm.
- Disrupting Time is an omnium gatherum on familiar Hauerwasian themes, ranging in style from the incisive to the outrageous to the whimsical.
- Her modalities of alcohol usage come across as something of an omnium gatherum: precolonial, rural ceremonial, or gift exchange, rural commoditized drinking, urban working- and middle-class drinking, and urban elite drinking.
- The omnium gatherum style of the CDF is vulnerable.
- To put it more bluntly: Did her writings exhibit any doctrine at all, or Were they simply an omnium gatherum of pious poetry, saccharine playlets, and florid ‘spiritual’ writing?
Synonyms mixture, blend, mingling, combination, compound, fusion, composition, concoction, brew, alloy, merger, union, amalgamation, amalgam, coalition, cross, hybrid
OriginEarly 16th century: mock Latin, from Latin omnium ‘of all’ and gather + the Latin suffix -um. |