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Definition of catalogue noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

catalogue

noun
 
/ˈkætəlɒɡ/
 
/ˈkætəlɔːɡ/
(US English also catalog)
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  1. a complete list of items, for example of things that people can look at or buy
    • to consult the library catalogue
    • An illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
    • Please take a look at our online catalogue.
    see also back catalogue
    Extra Examples
    • More details are given in our catalogue.
    • Browse our illustrated catalogue of garden plants.
    • The gallery produced a catalogue of young artists.
    • She consulted the museum catalogue.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • colour/​color
    • illustrated
    • mail-order
    verb + catalogue
    • produce
    • publish
    • browse through
    preposition
    • in a/​the catalogue
    See full entry
  2. a long series of things that happen (usually bad things)
    • a catalogue of disasters/errors/misfortunes
    Extra Examples
    • The commission reported a catalogue of errors that went right to the top of government.
    • What followed was a whole catalogue of disasters.
    • What we have here is a catalogue of failure.
    • Child protection officers uncovered a catalogue of cruelty and abuse.
  3. Word Originlate Middle English: via Old French from late Latin catalogus, from Greek katalogos, from katalegein ‘pick out or enrol’.
See catalogue in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English

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