Definition of Collective

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Collective

Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation.

Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.

Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form; as, a collective name or noun, like assembly, army, jury, etc.

Tending to collect; forming a collection.

Having plurality of origin or authority; as, in diplomacy, a note signed by the representatives of several governments is called a collective note.

A collective noun or name.

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Collective Quotations

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
Thomas Jefferson

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Harry S. Truman

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Lily Tomlin

What is reality, anyway? Just a collective hunch.
Lily Tomlin

Duty is not collective; it is personal.
Calvin Coolidge

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.
David Letterman

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
Vladimir Lenin

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
Elie Wiesel

Collective Translations

collective in Dutch is gemeenschappelijk, collectief
collective in French is collectif
collective in German is Kollektiv, Verbands
collective in Italian is in comune
collective in Portuguese is coletivo
collective in Spanish is colectividad

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