collector
Syllables: col·lec·tor/kəˈlɛk.tə(ɹ)/US/kəˈlɛk.tɚ/
collector noun: a person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
Noun
collector (plural collectors)
- A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
- She is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.
- That old piano is just a big dust collector.
- A person who is employed to collect payments.
- She works for the government as a tax collector.
- Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547
- A mafioso whose task is to collect protection money from small businesses
- The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
- 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.1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
- One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
- Whereupon he soon after appointed A. W. his collector in Austins; which office he kept till he was admitted Mr. of arts1655, Anthony Wood, diaries
- A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers.
Proper noun capitalized: Collector
Collector
- A locality in the Queanbeyan-Palerang council area, Upper Lachlan council area and the Yass Valley council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.
collector meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
collector in Hindi
- collector
- कलक्टर kalakṭar
collector in Tamil
- person or thing that collects
- சேகரிப்பாளர் cēkarippāḷar, சேகரிப்பான் cēkarippāṉ
collector in Marathi
- संग्राहक, संग्रहकर्ता
collector in Urdu
- جمع کنندہ, کلکٹر, کلیکٹر
More languagesFewer languages
- collector in Bengali
- সংগ্রাহক, সমাহর্তা, কর সঙ্গ্রাহক, সঙ্কলয়িতা
- collector in Telugu
- కలెక్టరు kalekṭaru
- collector in Malayalam
- കളക്ടർ, ശേഖരിക്കുന്നയാൾ
- collector in Kannada
- ವಸೂಲಿಗಾರ, ಕಲೆಕ್ಟರು
- collector in Punjabi
- ਕੁਲੈਕਟਰ, ਇਕੱਠਾ ਕਰਨ ਵਾਲਾ, ਕਲੈਕਟਰ
- collector in Gujarati
- કલેક્ટર kalekṭar
- collector in Odia
- ସଂଗ୍ରାହକ
- collector in Nepali
- कलेक्टर, सङ्कलनकर्ता, सङ्ग्रहकर्ता
- collector in Malay
- pengutip, pemungut
- collector in Persian
- جمع آوری jam' âvari
- collector in Vietnamese
- nhà sưu tập
Examples of collector in a sentence
- Price 4s. 6d. net.—Most persons are collectors at some periods of their lives.1941 January, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 48:
- I should've left my phone at home 'cause this is a disaster / Callin' like a collector / Sorry, I cannot answer2010, “Telephone”, performed by Lady Gaga and Beyoncé:
Forms of collector
| plural | collectors |
|---|---|
| alternative form | collecter |
| alternative form (obsolete) | collectour |
Origin of collector
Inherited from Middle English collectour, from Anglo-Norman collectour, from Late Latin collēctor, from Latin colligō (“to gather together”).
Words formed from collector
- Boehm collector
- bone collector
- bow collector
- collectorate
- collectoress
- collector lane
- collector road
- collectorship
- collector shoe
- collector's item
- collector street
- debt collector
- dust-collector
- fog collector
- garbage collector
- grievance collector
- injustice collector
- juice collector
- kettle fur collector
- noncollector
- pure collector
- refuse collector
- solar collector
- solar thermal collector
- specullector
- stamp collector
- subcollector
- tax collector
- ticket-collector
- ticket collector
- toll-collector
- undercollector
- wound collector
Phrases with collector
Words that rhyme with collector
Questions about collector
- What does collector mean?
- Collector means a person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
- What is collector in Hindi?
- Collector in Hindi is कलक्टर (kalakṭar). See Collector meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use collector in a sentence?
- Price 4s. 6d. net.—Most persons are collectors at some periods of their lives.
- What part of speech is collector?
- Collector can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce collector?
- Collector is pronounced /kəˈlɛk.tɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of collector?
- The plural of collector is collectors.
Words near collector in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: collector (page history and authors); Collector (page history and authors); कलक्टर (Hindi) (page history and authors); collector (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); collector (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); collector (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); కలెక్టరు (Telugu) (page history and authors); collector (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); collector (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); collector (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); કલેક્ટર (Gujarati) (page history and authors); collector (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); collector (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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