collar
Syllables: col·larUK/ˈkɒlə/
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Australia/ˈkɔlə/
collar noun: the part of an upper garment (shirt, jacket, etc.) that fits around the neck and throat, especially if sewn from a separate piece of fabric.
Noun
collar (plural collars)
- The part of an upper garment (shirt, jacket, etc.) that fits around the neck and throat, especially if sewn from a separate piece of fabric.
- It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01
- Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen...1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
- A decorative band or other fabric around the neckline.
- A chain worn around the neck.
- A similar detachable item.
- A coloured ring round the neck of a bird or mammal.
- A band or chain around an animal's neck, used to restrain and/or identify it.
- Make sure your dog has a collar holding an identification tag.
- A part of harness designed to distribute the load around the shoulders of a draft animal.
- A hangman's knot.
- Synonyms:
- halter, Bridport dagger, hangman's knot, hangman's noose, hempen collar, hempen cravat
- A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.
- a collar of brawn
- Any encircling device or structure.
- A nylon collar kept the bolt from damaging the surface underneath.
- In this case, slide the collar of the flapper over the overflow tube until it seats against the bottom of the flush valve.Popular Mechanics Complete Home How-to (page 356)
- A physical lockout device to prevent operation of a mechanical signal lever.
- A ring or cincture.
- A collar beam.
- A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft.
- Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.
- The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem
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- A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.
- An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured.
- An arrest.
- The collar was made less than twenty-four hours after the hunky bastards butchered the old man.2013, Dorothy Uhnak, Law and Order
- A trading strategy using options such that there is both an upper limit on profit and a lower limit on loss, constructed through taking equal but opposite positions in a put and a call with different strike prices.
- A topological neighborhood around a submanifold that can be deformed to preserve a specified condition or structure.
Verb
collar (third-person singular simple present collars, present participle collaring, simple past and past participle collared)
- To grab or seize by the collar or neck.
- To place a collar on, to fit with one.
- Collar and leash aggressive dogs.
- (Follow me, don't follow me.) I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush.
(Collar me, don't collar me.) I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush.1988 November 8, R.E.M., “Orange Crush”, in Green
- To surround or encircle.
- To seize, capture or detain.
- To steal.
- "Ho, aboard the Salt Junk Sarah,
Rollin" home across the line,
The Bo'sun collared the Captain's hat
And threw it in the brine.1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 52
- "Ho, aboard the Salt Junk Sarah,
- To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
- To arrest.
- Britain’s police are especially zealous. Officers spend thousands of hours sifting through potentially offensive posts and arrest 30 people a day. Among those collared were a man who ranted about immigration on Facebook and a couple who criticised their daughter’s primary school.2025 May 15, “Europe’s free-speech problem”, in The Economist
- To bind in conversation.
- I managed to collar Fred in the office for an hour.
- They go in and lobby, collar the representatives and ask: are you for or against?1981 December 19, Nancy Wechsler, Christine Delphy, “Politics In France”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 22, page 8
- To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.
- To bind (a submissive) to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.
Proper noun capitalized: Collar
Collar (plural Collars)
- A surname.
collar meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
collar in Hindi
- fabric garment part fitting around throat
- कॉलर kŏlar, गरेबान garebān, गला galā
collar in Tamil
- கழுத்துப் பட்டை
collar in Urdu
- fabric garment part fitting around throat
- کالر kālar
collar in Bengali
- মণ্ডল, বন্ধনী, গলবন্ধ, গলদেশ ধরা, টুঁটি ধরা
More languagesFewer languages
- collar in Malayalam
- കോളർ, പട്ടിയുടെ കഴുത്തിലിടുന്ന തോൽപ്പട്ട, കുപ്പായക്കഴുത്ത്
- collar in Kannada
- ಕುತ್ತಿಗೆಪಟ್ಟಿ, ಕೊರಳಪಟ್ಟಿ, ಕತ್ತುಪಟ್ಟಿ, ಕಾಲರುಹಿಡಿ
- collar in Punjabi
- ਗਰੇਬਾਨ garebān
- collar in Gujarati
- કોલર, કોલ્લર
- collar in Nepali
- कोलर, कालर, कोलर गर्न
- collar in Tagalog
- kolyar
- collar in Arabic
- طَوْق ṭawq, يَاقَة yāqa, قَبَّة qabba
- collar in Malay
- daba, relang, kolar
- collar in Indonesian
- kerah
- collar in Persian
- قلاده, یوغ, باشت, یقه yaqe
- collar in Thai
- ปลอกคอ bplɔ̀ɔk-kɔɔ, คอ kɔɔ
- collar in Vietnamese
- cổ áo
- collar in Myanmar
- လည်ပတ် lanypat, ကော်လာ kaula, လည်ခွံ lanyhkwam
Examples of collar in a sentence
- The collar of this shirt is too tight; it’s choking me.
- He gave the shirt a spritzing of water and ran the iron across the collar.
- Collar rot forms in the collet between the stem and the root.
Synonyms of collar
- halter
- hangman's knot
- hangman's noose
- collum
- Bridport dagger
- hempen collar
- hempen cravat
Forms of collar
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | collars |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | collars |
| present participle | collaring |
| past participle | collared |
| past | collared |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Collars |
Origin of collar
From Middle English coler, borrowed from Old French coler (Modern French collier), from Late Latin collāre, from Latin collāris, from collum (“neck”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐍃 (hals, “neck”), Old English heals (“neck”). Compare Spanish cuello (“neck”). More at halse. Doublet of collet.
Words formed from collar
- against the collar
- baby collar
- bark collar
- bell-collar
- bishop's collar
- black-collar
- blue-collar
- blue-collar work
- blue-collar worker
- bottle collar
- brass-collar Democrat
- buster collar
- camp collar
- Casal collar
- Casal's collar
- cervical collar
- change collars
- choke collar
- Claudine collar
- clergy collar
- clerical collar
- collar and elbow
- collar bomb
- collarbone
- collar bone
- collar-bone
- collar button
- collar-button abscess
- collar county
- collared lizard
- collarless
- collarmaker
- collarmaking
- collar of esses
- collar stud
- collar stud abscess
- collar tab
- collar-work
- Danton collar
- dog collar
- E-collar
- elbow and collar
- electronic collar
- Elizabethan collar
- equity collar
- eternity collar
- Eton collar
- falling collar
- feel someone's collar
- flashing collar
- flea collar
- floating collar
- flotation collar
- Gladstone collar
- gold-collar
- gray-collar
- gray collar
- green-collar
- green collar
- grey-collar
Phrases with collar
- collar up
- in collar
- SS collar
- collar beam
- collar tabs
- head collar
- pink collar
- rain collar
- Toby collar
- wine collar
- wing collar
- collar beams
37 more phrasesFewer phrases
- collar bombs
- collar bones
- collar studs
- horse collar
- radio collar
- Roman collar
- shawl collar
- shirt collar
- shock collar
- storm collar
- white collar
- hempen collar
- Medici collar
- out of collar
- sailor collar
- collar buttons
- Newgate collar
- posture collar
- Vandyke collar
- collar counties
- mandarin collar
- Prussian collar
- training collar
- millstone collar
- Peter Pan collar
- pie crust collar
- turtleneck collar
- collar the bowling
- hot under the collar
- interest rate collar
- collar stud abscesses
- felt someone's collar
- feels someone's collar
- remote training collar
- hotter under the collar
- feeling someone's collar
- hottest under the collar
Words that rhyme with collar
Questions about collar
- What does collar mean?
- Collar means the part of an upper garment (shirt, jacket, etc.) that fits around the neck and throat, especially if sewn from a separate piece of fabric.
- What is collar in Hindi?
- Collar in Hindi is कॉलर (kŏlar), गरेबान (garebān), गला (galā). See Collar meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is collar?
- Collar can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce collar?
- Collar is pronounced /ˈkɒlə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of collar?
- The plural of collar is collars.
Words near collar in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: collar (page history and authors); Collar (page history and authors); collar (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); collar (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); collar (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); collar (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); collar (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); collar (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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