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Plural of collective

regular plural

The plural of collective is collectives.

Forms of collective

Singularcollective /kəˈlɛktɪv/
Pluralcollectives /kəˈlɛktɪvz/
Countablecountable

Collectives in a sentence

  • There are, however, a number of contemporary artists and art collectives that have defined their practice precisely around the facilitation of dialogue among diverse communities.2005, Zoya Kocur, Simon Leung, Theory in contemporary art since 1985, page 76
  • Critical Art Ensemble is one of many art collectives operating on the principle that information is power and that it is most effectively made available through a combination of science and aesthetics.2006 March 5, Holland Cotter, “The Collective Conscious”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  • Most people are at home, eating dinner with their collectives or their biofamilies.1988, Pat Califia, Macho Sluts, Alyson Books, →ISBN, page 188. From the entry biofamily
  • In Tingri county six out of the nine state-run enterprises (including collectives, which are quasi state enterprises) were without a bookkeeper.1991, The Poverty of Plenty, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 110. From the entry state-run
  • On the other hand, when imbeciles and debiles were put together, their collectives averaged 5.2 members and the duration was 12.8 minutes.1993, Lev Semenovich Vygotsky, translated by Jane E. Knox and Carol B. Stevens, edited by Robert W. Rieber and Aaron S. Carton, The…. From the entry debile

Meaning of collective

  1. adjective Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body.
  2. adjective Tending to collect; forming a collection.
  3. adjective Having plurality of origin or authority.

Full definition of collective

Questions about the plural of collective

What is the plural of collective?
The plural of collective is collectives.
Is collective countable?
Collective is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: collective (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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