collector

Other forms of collector

plural

collectors·

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 collector

What does collector mean?

collector means "a person who collects things". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in collector?

collector has 3 syllables: col-lec-tor. The stress falls on "lec". In IPA it is /kəˈlɛktɚ/.

What is another word for collector?

Close synonyms include aggregator, gatherer, accumulator. 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 collector a common word?

collector 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 collector?

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