collector's item

1. 1.

   the outstanding item (the prize piece or main exhibit) in a collection

   Synonymsshowpiecepiece de resistance

   Broadercurio

   Narrowerrariora

Questions about collector's item

What does collector's item mean?

collector's item means "the outstanding item (the prize piece or main exhibit) in a collection".

What is another word for collector's item?

Close synonyms include showpiece, piece de resistance. 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's item a common word?

collector's item is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.