According to Guinness World Records, the largest collection of coffee pots belongs to Robert Dahl (Germany) and consists of 27,390 coffee pots as of 2 November 2012, in Rövershagen, Germany.
PLEONASM
pleonasm
(noun) using more words than necessary; “a tiny little child”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
pleonasm (countable and uncountable, plural pleonasms)
(uncountable, rhetoric) Redundancy in wording.
(countable) A phrase involving pleonasm; a phrase containing one or more words which are redundant because their meaning is expressed elsewhere in the phrase.
Coordinate terms
• ellipsis
Anagrams
• neoplasm, planemos
Source: Wiktionary
Ple"o*nasm, ( n. Etym: [L. pleonasmus, Gr. Full, a., and cf. Poly-, Plus.] (Rhet.)
Definition: Redundancy of language in speaking or writing; the use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; as, I saw it with my own eyes.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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