A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together. / Multiple related objects associated as a group. / The activity of collecting. / (topology, mathematical analysis) A set of sets.

Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body. / Tending to collect; forming a collection. / Having plurality of origin or authority.

A farm owned by a collection of people. / (especially in communist countries) One of more farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community. / (grammar) A collective noun or name.

In a collective manner; viewed together as a whole; to be treated as a single unit, rather than the items that make up the collection separately.

A hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector.

plural of collect

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of collect

present participle of collect

plural of collectible

The state or quality of being collective.