Meaning of collective | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body.
   not-comparable
2. Tending to collect; forming a collection.
   not-comparable
3. collective, group, association, union, guild
4. Having plurality of origin or authority.
   not-comparable
5. bus
6. Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form.
   not-comparable
7. ellipsis of taxi colectivo (“shared taxi, colectivo”)
8. Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.
   not-comparable, obsolete
9. colectivo (government-supported far-left paramilitary group in Venezuela)

Equivalents

Examples

“the collective body of a nation”

“Local is his throne […] to fix a point, / A central point, collective of his sons.”

“critical and collective reason”

CEFR level