catalogue
Etymology

From Middle English cathaloge, from Old French catalogue, from Late Latin catalogus, itself from Ancient Greek κατάλογος, from καταλέγω, from κατα- + λέγω.

Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /ˈkæt.əˌlɒɡ/
  • (America) IPA: /ˈkæt.əˌlɔɡ/
  • (cot-caught) IPA: /ˈkæt.əˌlɑɡ/
Noun

catalogue (plural catalogues) (British spelling)

  1. A systematic list of books, names, pictures, etc.
    Synonyms: Thesaurus:list
    • 1631 (first performance), Philip Massinger, The Emperour of the East. A Tragæ-comœdie. […], London: […] Thomas Harper, for Iohn Waterson, published 1632, →OCLC ↗, Act IV, scene iii ↗:
      [T]he charge of my moſt curious, and coſtly ingredients fraide, amounting to ſome ſeaventeene thouſand crovvnes, a trifle in reſpect of health, vvriting your noble name in my Catalogue, I ſhall acknovvledge my ſelfe amply ſatisfi'd.
    • 1999, J. G. Baker, Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles:
      He intended to publish a flora of the island, and drafted out a synonymic catalogue, into which he inserted from time to time elaborate descriptions drawn up from living specimens of the species which he was able to procure.
    1. A complete (usually alphabetical or chronological) list of items.
    2. A list of all the publications in a library; a library catalogue.
  2. A retailer's magazine detailing the products they sell, allowing the reader to order them for delivery.
  3. (US) A book printed periodically by a college, university, or other institution that gives a definitive description of the institution, its history, courses and degrees offered, etc.
  4. (computing, dated) A directory listing.
  5. (music) A complete list of a recording artist's or a composer's songs.
  6. (in the singular, figuratively) A series of unwelcome or unpleasant things, often similar.
    The accident followed a catalogue of errors.
    Near-synonym: litany
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catalogue (catalogues, present participle cataloguing; simple past and past participle catalogued) (British spelling)

  1. To put into a catalogue.
  2. To make a catalogue of.
  3. To add items (e.g. books) to an existing catalogue.
  4. (philately) to value or sort stamps using a catalogue
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