Collector
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /kəˈlɛk.tɚ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Collector is a noun meaning A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
Meaning
A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
More Meanings
- A person who is employed to collect payments.
- (electronics) The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
- A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
- A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers.
- (historical) One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
Example Sentences
That old piano is just a big dust collector.
She works for the government as a tax collector.
Volumes[…] without any of tthe collector's own reflections.
She is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.
Word Forms
- collectors
- collecter
- collectour
Synonyms for collector
Depending on context, synonyms include accumulator, gatherer.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gatherer, accumulator, collecting, collection, compilation, culler.
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