COLLECTOR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does collector mean?
• COLLECTOR (noun)
The noun COLLECTOR has 4 senses:
1. a person who collects things
2. a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
3. a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth
4. the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes
Familiarity information: COLLECTOR used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• COLLECTOR (noun)
Meaning:
A person who collects things
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
aggregator; collector
Hypernyms ("collector" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "collector"):
archivist (a person in charge of collecting and cataloguing archives)
conchologist (a collector and student of mollusc shells)
coin collector; numismatist; numismatologist (a collector and student of money (and coins in particular))
philatelist; stamp collector (a collector and student of postage stamps)
Meaning:
A person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
accumulator; collector; gatherer
Hypernyms ("collector" is a kind of...):
bearer; holder (the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it)
Domain category:
revenue enhancement; tax; taxation (charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "collector"):
conductor (the person who collects fares on a public conveyance)
gleaner (someone who gathers something in small pieces (e.g. information) slowly and carefully)
packrat (a collector of miscellaneous useless objects)
rent collector (a person who goes from house to house collecting rents for the owner)
Instance hyponyms:
Gardner; Isabella Stewart Gardner (United States collector and patron of art who built a museum in Boston to house her collection and opened it to the public in 1903 (1840-1924))
Meaning:
A crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("collector" is a kind of...):
crater (a bowl-shaped depression formed by the impact of a meteorite or bomb)
Meaning:
The electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("collector" is a kind of...):
electrode (a conductor used to make electrical contact with some part of a circuit)
Holonyms ("collector" is a part of...):
electronic transistor; junction transistor; transistor (a semiconductor device capable of amplification)
