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stamp collecting en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (uncountable) The hobby of collecting and displaying postage stamps and related items.
2. (derogatory, figuratively, uncountable, usually) Collection of items or information of no intrinsic value.
   • All science is either physics or stamp collecting. a. 1937, attributed to Ernest Rutherford
   • He really changed the field of paleontology from the stamp-collecting type of science where you just catalog fossils. 2002 May 21, Michael Shermer (quoted), “Stephen Gould, 60”, in Los Angeles Times:

Relateds

stamp collection · stamp collector

Synonyms

philately