collective

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: col=lec=tive

CIDE DICTIONARY

collective, a. [L. collectivus: cf. F. collectif.].

•  Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation.  Bp. Hoadley.  [1913 Webster]
•  Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.  Sir T. Browne.  [1913 Webster]
•  Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form; as, a collective name or noun, like assembly, army, jury, etc.  [1913 Webster]
•  Tending to collect; forming a collection.  [1913 Webster]

  "Local is his throne . . . to fix a point,
  A central point, collective of his sons."  [1913 Webster]
•  Having plurality of origin or authority; as, in diplomacy, a note signed by the representatives of several governments is called a collective note.  [1913 Webster]

Collective fruit (Bot.), that which is formed from a mass of flowers, as the mulberry, pineapple, and the like; -- called also multiple fruit. Gray.

collective, n. 

 A collective noun or name.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

collective, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 formed by or constituting a collection.
2 taken as a whole; aggregate (our collective opinion).
3 of or from several or many individuals; common.
--n.
1 a = collective farm. b any cooperative enterprise. c its members.
2 = collective noun.

Idiom

collective bargaining negotiation of wages etc. by an organized body of employees. collective farm a jointly-operated esp. State-owned amalgamation of several smallholdings. collective noun Gram. a noun that is grammatically singular and denotes a collection or number of individuals (e.g. assembly, family, troop). collective ownership ownership of land, means of production, etc., by all for the benefit of all. collective unconscious Psychol. (in Jungian theory) the part of the unconscious mind derived from ancestral memory and experience common to all mankind, as distinct from the personal unconscious.

Derivative

collectively adv. collectiveness n. collectivity n.

Etymology

F collectif or L collectivus (as COLLECT(1))

THESAURUS

collective

abstract, accompanying, accordant, agreeing, associate, associated, at one with, bland, broad, coacting, coactive, coadjutant, coadjuvant, coadunate, coefficient, coincident, collaborative, collectivist, collectivistic, collusive, combined, combining, commensal, common, communal, communalist, communalistic, communist, communistic, communitarian, commutual, concerted, concomitant, concordant, concurrent, concurring, conjoint, conniving, consilient, conspiratorial, cooperant, cooperating, cooperative, coordinate, coworking, ecumenic, featureless, fellow, general, generalized, generic, harmonious, harmonized, in common, indefinite, indeterminate, joint, meeting, mutual, nebulous, neutral, noncompetitive, nonspecific, parasitic, popular, public, reciprocal, saprophytic, social, socialistic, societal, symbiotic, synchronous, synergetic, synergic, synergistic, uncharacterized, uncompetitive, undifferentiated, united, uniting, unspecified, vague, wide

ROGET THESAURUS

collective

Generality

N generality, generalization, universality, catholicity, catholicism, miscellany, miscellaneousness, dragnet, common run, worldwideness, everyone, everybody, all hands, all the world and his wife, anybody, N or M, all sorts, prevalence, run, general, generic, collective, broad, comprehensive, sweeping, encyclopedical, widespread, universal, catholic, catholical, common, worldwide, ecumenical, oecumenical, transcendental, prevalent, prevailing, rife, epidemic, besetting, all over, covered with, Pan-American, Anglican, Pan-Hellenic, Pan-Germanic, slavic, panharmonic, every, all, unspecified, impersonal, customary, whatever, whatsoever, to a man, one and all, generally, always, for better for worse, in general, generally speaking, speaking generally, for the most part, in the long run.