collector

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.

   She is an avid collector of nineteenth-century postage stamps.

2. 2
   noun

   A person who is employed to collect payments.

   She works for the government as a tax collector.

3. 3
   noun

   A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book.

   Volumes[…] without any of tthe collector's own reflections.

4. 4
   noun

   One holding a Bachelor of Arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.

   Whereupon he soon after appointed A. W. his collector in Austins; which office he kept till he was admitted Mr. of arts

5. 5
   noun

   the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes

6. 6
   noun

   a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth

7. 7
   noun

   a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)

8. 8
   noun

   a person who collects things

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English collectour, from Anglo-Norman collectour, from Late Latin collēctor, from Latin colligō (“to gather together”).