'Collector' definitions:
Definition of 'collector'
(from WordNet)
noun
A person who collects things [syn: collector, aggregator]
noun
A person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) [syn: collector, gatherer, accumulator]
noun
A crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth
noun
The electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes
Definition of 'Collector'
From: GCIDE
- Collector \Col*lect"or\, n. [LL. collector one who collects: cf. F. collecteur.]
- 1. One who collects things which are separate; esp., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins. [1913 Webster]
- I digress into Soho to explore a bookstall. Methinks I have been thirty years a collector. --Lamb. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book. [1913 Webster]
- Volumes without the collector's own reflections. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Com.) An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll. [1913 Webster]
- A great part of this is now embezzled . . . by collectors, and other officers. --Sir W. Temple. [1913 Webster]
- 4. One authorized to collect debts. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent. --Todd. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'collector'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accumulator,
- addict,
- admirer,
- amateur,
- arbiter,
- arbiter elegantiarum,
- arbiter of taste,
- aspirant,
- aspirer,
- authority,
- base,
- beg,
- beglerbeg,
- bey,
- bill collector,
- bon vivant,
- booster,
- buff,
- bug,
- burgrave,
- candidate,
- cognoscente,
- collection agent,
- connaisseur,
- connoisseur,
- coveter,
- critic,
- demon,
- desirer,
- devotee,
- dey,
- dilettante,
- douanier,
- dunner,
- eager beaver,
- emitter,
- energumen,
- enthusiast,
- eparch,
- epicure,
- epicurean,
- exarch,
- exciseman,
- expert,
- faddist,
- fan,
- fanatic,
- fancier,
- farmer,
- fiend,
- filamentary transistor,
- follower,
- freak,
- gatherer,
- gauleiter,
- germanium crystal triode,
- good judge,
- gourmand,
- gourmet,
- governor,
- governor-general,
- great one for,
- groupie,
- hankerer,
- hobbyist,
- hook-collector transistor,
- hopeful,
- hound,
- idolater,
- idolizer,
- infatuate,
- judge,
- khedive,
- lieutenant governor,
- lover,
- magpie,
- maven,
- miser,
- nabob,
- nawab,
- nut,
- pack rat,
- palatine,
- point-contact transistor,
- proconsul,
- provincial,
- pursuer,
- refined palate,
- rhapsodist,
- rooter,
- satrap,
- solicitant,
- spacistor,
- stadtholder,
- subahdar,
- sucker for,
- suitor,
- tax collector,
- tetrarch,
- tetrode transistor,
- transistor,
- unipolar transistor,
- vali,
- vice-king,
- viceroy,
- virtuoso,
- visionary,
- votary,
- wali,
- wanter,
- wisher,
- worshiper,
- yearner,
- zealot