collective

Meanings

Adjective

• Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body.
• Tending to collect; forming a collection.
• Having plurality of origin or authority.
• Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form.
• Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.

Noun

• A farm owned by a collection of people.
• One of more farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community.
• A collective noun or name.
• A group dedicated to a particular cause or interest.

Origin

• From Middle French collectif, from Latin collēctīvus, from collēctus, past participle of colligō, from com- + legō. Compare French collectif. colectivo.