The garbage collector comes three times a week.
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Collector
//kəˈlɛktɚ//
Synonyms for "collector" (120 found)
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Closest matches (24)
Strong matches (36)
Related words (60)
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5 entriespart of
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16 entriesTranslations
130 translations across 59 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- versamelaar noun (person or thing that collects)
Albanian
1 entries- koleksionist noun (person or thing that collects)
Armenian
2 entries- կոլեկցիոներ noun (person or thing that collects)
- հավաքորդ noun (person or thing that collects)
Asturian
1 entries- coleicionista noun (person or thing that collects)
Bashkir
1 entries- йыйыусы noun (person or thing that collects)
Belarusian
3 entries- збо́ршчык noun (person or thing that collects)
- кале́ктар noun (amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor)
- калекцыянер noun (person or thing that collects)
Breton
1 entries- dastumer noun (person or thing that collects)
Bulgarian
4 entries- инкасатор noun (person who is employed to collect payments)
- колектор noun (amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor)
- колекционер noun (person or thing that collects)
- събирач noun (person or thing that collects)
Catalan
4 entries- col·leccionador noun (person or thing that collects)
- col·leccionista noun (person or thing that collects)
- col·lector noun (person who is employed to collect payments)
- col·lector noun (amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor)
Cebuano
2 entries- kolektor noun (person or thing that collects)
- kolektor noun (person who is employed to collect payments)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 收債人 /收债人 noun (person or thing that collects)
- 收稅員 /收税员 noun (person or thing that collects)
- 收藏家 noun (person or thing that collects)
Czech
3 entries- kolektor noun (amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor)
- sběratel noun (person or thing that collects)
- výběrčí noun (person who is employed to collect payments)
Danish
4 entries- indsamler noun (person who is employed to collect payments)
- opkræver noun (person who is employed to collect payments)
- samler noun (person or thing that collects)
- skatteopkræver noun (person who is employed to collect payments)
Dutch
1 entries- verzamelaar noun (person or thing that collects)
Esperanto
1 entries- kolektanto noun (person or thing that collects)
Estonian
1 entries- koguja noun (person or thing that collects)
Finnish
4 entries- keräilijä noun (person or thing that collects)
- kerääjä noun (person or thing that collects)
- kollektori noun (amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor)
- veronkantaja noun (person who is employed to collect payments)
French
4 entries- collecteur noun (person who is employed to collect payments)
- collecteur noun (amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor)
- collectionneur noun (person or thing that collects)
- collectionneuse noun (person or thing that collects)
Friulian
1 entries- colezionist noun (person or thing that collects)
Galician
1 entries- coleccionista noun (person or thing that collects)
Georgian
3 entries- კოლექტორი noun (person or thing that collects)
- კოლექციონერი noun (person or thing that collects)
- შემგროვებელი noun (person or thing that collects)
German
4 entries- Kassierer noun (person who is employed to collect payments)
- Kollektor noun (amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor)
- Sammler noun (person or thing that collects)
- Sammlerin noun (person or thing that collects)
Greek
1 entries- συλλέκτης noun (person or thing that collects)
Hawaiian
1 entries- mea ʻohi noun (person or thing that collects)
Hebrew
2 entries- אספן noun (person or thing that collects)
- אספנית noun (person or thing that collects)
Hungarian
1 entries- gyűjtő noun (person or thing that collects)
Ido
1 entries- kolektero noun (person or thing that collects)
Interlingua
1 entries- collector noun (person or thing that collects)
Irish
3 entries- bailitheoir noun (person or thing that collects)
- cruinnitheoir noun (person or thing that collects)
- tiomsaitheoir noun (person or thing that collects)
Italian
4 entries- collettore noun (amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor)
- collezionista noun (person or thing that collects)
- esattore noun (person who is employed to collect payments)
- esattrice noun (person who is employed to collect payments)
Japanese
3 entries- かけ取り noun (person or thing that collects)
- 収集家 noun (person or thing that collects)
- 集める人 noun (person or thing that collects)
Khmer
2 entries- អ្នកទារពន្ធ noun (person who is employed to collect payments)
- អ្នកប្រមូល noun (person or thing that collects)
Latin
4 entries- coactor noun (person who is employed to collect payments)
- collector noun (person or thing that collects)
- convector noun (person or thing that collects)
- legulus noun (person or thing that collects)
Latvian
4 entries- kolekcionāre noun (person or thing that collects)
- kolekcionārs noun (person or thing that collects)
- kolektors noun (amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor)
- krājēja noun (person or thing that collects)
Lithuanian
4 entries- kolekcininkas noun (person or thing that collects)
- kolekcionierius noun (person or thing that collects)
- kolektorius noun (amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor)
- rinkėjas noun (person or thing that collects)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Sammler noun (person or thing that collects)
Malay
2 entries- pemungut noun (person or thing that collects)
- pengutip noun (person or thing that collects)
Māori
2 entries- kaikohi noun (person or thing that collects)
- kaikohi noun (person who is employed to collect payments)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- samler noun (person or thing that collects)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- samlar noun (person or thing that collects)
Occitan
1 entries- colleccionaire noun (person or thing that collects)
Persian
1 entries- جمع آوری noun (person or thing that collects)
Polish
3 entries- kolekcjoner noun (person or thing that collects)
- kolektor noun (amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor)
- zbieracz noun (person or thing that collects)
Portuguese
4 entries- colecionador noun (person or thing that collects)
- colector noun (amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor)
- coletor noun (person who is employed to collect payments)
- coletor noun (amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor)
Romanian
1 entries- colecționar noun (person or thing that collects)
Russian
3 entries- колле́ктор noun (amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor)
- коллекционе́р noun (person or thing that collects)
- сбо́рщик noun (person or thing that collects)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- kolekcionar noun (person or thing that collects)
- kolektor noun (amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor)
- колектор noun (amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor)
- колекционар noun (person or thing that collects)
Southern Altai
1 entries- јуучы noun (person or thing that collects)
Spanish
4 entries- coleccionista noun (person or thing that collects)
- colector noun (person who is employed to collect payments)
- colector noun (amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor)
- recaudador noun (person who is employed to collect payments)
Swedish
1 entries- samlare noun (person or thing that collects)
Tamil
2 entries- சேகரிப்பான் noun (person or thing that collects)
- சேகரிப்பாளர் noun (person or thing that collects)
Tatar
1 entries- җыючы noun (person or thing that collects)
Ukrainian
4 entries- збира́ч noun (person or thing that collects)
- збира́ч noun (person who is employed to collect payments)
- коле́ктор noun (amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor)
- колекціоне́р noun (person or thing that collects)
Vietnamese
1 entries- nhà sưu tập noun (person or thing that collects)
Volapük
3 entries- hikonletan noun (person or thing that collects)
- jikonletan noun (person or thing that collects)
- konletan noun (person or thing that collects)
Welsh
1 entries- casglwr noun (person or thing that collects)
Xhosa
1 entries- umbuthi noun (person or thing that collects)
Yiddish
1 entries- זאַמלער noun (person or thing that collects)
Zulu
1 entries- umbuthi noun (person or thing that collects)
Sample sentences
19 total sentences available.
He is something of a stamp collector.
Source: tatoeba (291746)
My grandpa was an avid collector of stamps.
Source: tatoeba (576243)
It's very unlikely that a serious art collector would ever buy anything from that source.
Source: tatoeba (954113)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.