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