say it: kuh-LEK-tuhd
collected is an adjective meaning "brought together in one place". It carries 2 recorded senses.
brought together in one place
“the collected works of Milton”
“the gathered folds of the skirt”
in full control of your faculties
“the witness remained collected throughout the cross-examination”
“perfectly poised and sure of himself”
“more self-contained and more dependable than many of the early frontiersmen”
“strong and self-possessed in the face of trouble”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for collected come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.