collectionneur — meaning in English

English meaning

• collector noun A person who collects items, often as a hobby.
• hoarder noun Someone who compulsively collects and keeps things, often far beyond what is useful or necessary.

Senses

collectionneur is used for these senses in English:

• collector A person who or thing that collects, or which creates or manages a collection.
• hoarder One who hoards; one who accumulates, collects, and stores, especially one who does so to excess.

collector — full definition

1. noun A person who collects items, often as a hobby.
2. noun A person or agency whose job is to collect payments owed.
3. noun Electronics: the terminal of a transistor that gathers current from the base and emitter.

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