Word family noun collection collector collective collectable collectible collectivism collectivization adjective collected collective collectable collectible collectivist verb collect collectivize adverb collectively
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcollectedcol‧lect‧ed /kəˈlektɪd/ adjective 1 CONTROLin control of yourself and your thoughts, feelings etc She wanted to arrive feeling cool, calm, and collected.2 → collected works/poems/essays/editionExamples from the Corpus
collected• A set of collected photographs of Ansel Adams are on display in the museum.• His collected works, he said, probably fill four foot ten of shelf space. 