Definitions for collector

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collector col·lec·tor

Spelling: [kuh-lek-ter]

IPA: /kəˈlɛk tər/

Collector is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 183 anagrams from letters in collector (ccelloort).

Definitions for collector

noun

1. a person or thing that collects.
2. a person employed to collect debts, duties, taxes, etc.
3. a person who collects books, paintings, stamps, shells, etc., especially as a hobby.
4. Electricity. a device for accumulating current from contact conductors.
5. Electronics. an electrode in a transistor or vacuum tube for collecting electrons, ions, or holes.
6. Metallurgy. promoter (def 5).
7. Energy. solar collector.

Origin of collector

1375-1425; late Middle English (Anglo-French) Medieval Latin, equivalent to Latin colleg- (variant stem of colligere; see collect¹) + -tor Examples for collector

He was an on-and-off drug addict and sometimes a criminal; he was a collector of switchblades and vintage Disney T-shirts.

“I never really was the type of collector who had to go out every weekend looking,” Dodge says.

The collector should be sure he knows the plant before he eats it.

Sutter forgot everything else as he sat there staring at that collector's paradise.

These plants are very small, often no doubt overlooked by the collector.

Fifty years have passed since John Fowles published The collector, but the novel has not aged.

He spoke exactly as if he had been a collector who had been roaming the world for curios.

The collector will have no trouble to recognize it from Figure 274.

We all know this person: the collector of vintage guitars who rarely plays, the home cook with more pots than recipes.

His friend has dropped hat and cane in shock but the drawing shows stuff that an Americana collector nowadays would kill for.