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Word: collective (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation.
  • grammar: Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form; as, a collective name or noun, like assembly, army, jury, etc.
  • Having plurality of origin or authority; as, in diplomacy, a note signed by the representatives of several governments is called a collective note.
  • obsolete: Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.
  • Tending to collect; forming a collection.

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Noun:

  • A farm owned by a collection of people.
  • grammar A collective noun or name.

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