Collector
Pronunciation
- enPR: kÅ-lÄ•k'tûr
Alternative forms
- collectour obsolete
Origin
From Anglo-Norman collectour, from Late Latin collector, from Latin colligere ("to gather together", past participle collectus), from com- (together) + legare (to choose), from Proto-Indo-European *leg- ("to pick out, select") (Watkins, 1969)
Full definition of collector
Noun
collector
(plural collectors)- A person who or thing which collects, or which creates or manages a collection.He is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.That old piano is just a big dust collector.
- 2012, April 26, Tasha Robinson, Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits :, Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get enough booty to win the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate pirates.â€
- A person who is employed to collect payments.She works for the government as a tax collector.
- 1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun†in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547Andrew 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.
- (electronics) The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
- A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.
- AddisonVolumes without the collector's own reflections.
- (historical) One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.