collect

1. 1.

   a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England

   Broaderprayer

1. 1.

   payable by the recipient on delivery

   “a collect call”

   “the letter came collect”

   “a COD parcel”

   Synonymscod

   Similardue

1. 1.

   make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays

   “call collect”

   “send a package collect”

Other forms of collect

plural

collects·

past tense

collected·

present participle

collecting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about collect

What does collect mean?

collect means "get or gather together". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in collect?

collect has 2 syllables: col-lect. The stress falls on "lect". In IPA it is /kəˈlɛkt/.

What is another word for collect?

Close synonyms include roll up, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is collect a common word?

collect is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with collect?

6 words rhyme with collect. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.