title: MongoDB Document size limit 16mb
body: <p>Does Document refer to the actual document, eg. the whole collection, or does it refer to the documents inside the collection? </p>
  
  <p>Similar question was asked here: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40735071/mongodb-collection-maximum-size-limit">Mongodb collection maximum size limit?</a></p>
  
  <p>But I dont really understand the answer.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Does Document size Limit 16 mb refer to a single Document inside a collection or to the whole collection?</strong></p>
  
  <p>My case: I am building a dictionary. I have about 20 thousand words, for every word I want to save 6 translations (German, French, Spanish, ect), I also want to save frequency, synonyms, example sentences, definitions and so on. Also I would like to scan a text corpus for a word and save the 15 most frequent words before and after the word.</p>
  
  <p>I did this with 2000 Words and the whole collection size is already at 13MB.</p>