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collective

Adjective CEFR C1 Standard
kəˈlɛktɪv

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

Españolcolectivo
FrançaisCollective
Italianocollettivocomune
18 more languages

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

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

collectively exhaustive collectivist collectivist anarchist collectivistic college-age college-aged

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