compilation

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

English compile + -ation, from Middle French, from Latin compilatio (“a raking together, a plundering, a collection of documents”).

=recolección=, f., compilation, summary; gathering, crop, harvest; the collecting of money or taxes; retirement. — The Spanish American Reader, Ernesto Nelson
I don’t wish to be hampered by any restrictions in the compilation of my notes. — Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It consisted more and more of compilations, of scholia, of extracts, of commentaries, forgeries, imitations. — Phaedrus, Plato

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