stamp collector

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   a collector and student of postage stamps

   Synonymsphilatelist

   Broadercollector

Questions about stamp collector

What does stamp collector mean?

stamp collector means "a collector and student of postage stamps".

What is another word for stamp collector?

Close synonyms include philatelist. 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 stamp collector a common word?

stamp collector 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.