Definition of COLLECTOR

collector

Plural: collectors

Noun

  • a person who collects things
  • a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
  • a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth
  • the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes
  • A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
  • A person who is employed to collect payments.
  • A person who is employed to collect payments.
  • 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.
  • One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.
  • A major sewer which collects sewerage from a number of smaller branch sewers

Examples

  • She is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.
  • That old piano is just a big dust collector.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English collectour, from Anglo-Norman collectour, from Late Latin collector, from Latin colligō (“to gather together”).

Scrabble Score: 13

collector: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
collector: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
collector: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 17

collector: valid Words With Friends Word