collector
//kəˈlɛk.tɚ//
Forms
- Plural
- collectors
Definitions
1.A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
- That old piano is just a big dust collector.
- She is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.
2.A person who is employed to collect payments.
- She works for the government as a tax collector.
3.The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
4.A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
- Volumes[…] without any of tthe collector's own reflections.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4880
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English collectour
From Anglo-Norman collectour
From Late Latin collēctor
From Latin colligō (“to gather together”).