collector

collector
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [One who collects accounts]
Syn. representative, collection agent, revenue agent, customs official, tax collector, tax officer, toll collector, bill collector, collection agency, office of internal revenue, revenue office, tax man, dun, exciseman (British), revenuer*; see also agent 1 , receiver .
2. [One who collects specimens]
Syn. connoisseur, hobbyist, antiquarian, antiquary, authority, fancier, serious amateur, informed amateur, gatherer, discoverer, compiler, finder, assembler, amasser, accumulator, hoarder, anthologist, curator, librarian, pack rat*; see also antiquarian , curator , scientist , specialist .
Collectors include the following --- of books: bibliophile, bibliopole, bibliotaph, bibliolater, bibliomaniac, bookworm*; of coins: coin collector, numismatist, specialist in numismatics; of eggs: oologist, egger, egg collector, specialist in oology, bird's egg fancier, devotee of egging, egg hound*; of human materials: archaeologist, historiographer, biographer, local historian, ethnologist, ethnographer, ethnographic specialist, specialist in ethnography, ethnohistorian, ethnolinguist, folklorist, curator of folkloristic materials, ethnobotanist; of insects: entomologist, entomographist, lepidopterist, entomographer, specialist in entomology, practitioner of entomology, practitioner of entomography, practitioner of lepidoptery, collector of bugs, collector of insects, collector of butterflies; of rocks: geologist, geognosist, mineralogist, geographer, rock hound*; of plants: botanist, herbalist, ecologist, paleobotanist, curator of a herbarium, curator of herbal collections, physiobotanist; of stamps: stamp collector, philatelist, philatelic dealer, philatelic specialist, expert in philately, specialist in philately.

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