stamp collector
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2.6
- noun
- /stæmp kəˈlɛktər/
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coleccionista de sellos
- As a child, I became a stamp collector after discovering my grandfather's old stamps.
Examples
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So are they going to require a fee from every quilter, stamp collector, and R/C airplane enthusiast out there as well?
Blog text (15) -
You could become a stamp collector.
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Stamp collectors use it.
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He's a stamp collector.
Fiction book (1994) -
I was a reader, a stamp collector, a movie-goer, a planetarium visitor—anything that spoke of vast distance and remote time.
Fiction book (1999) -
The stamp collector is a bit like this—they will try to visit every place of interest that is mentioned in the guidebook within an impossibly tight deadline.
Blog text (18) -
My friend is a dedicated stamp collector who spends hours organizing her collection.
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Many people join clubs to connect with other stamp collectors and share their collections.
Synonyms
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3.0
A person who gathers and keeps special items like stamps
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9.8
A person who collects and studies stamps
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is fully compositional: a "stamp" (postage label) combined with "collector" (person who collects) yields the straightforward meaning of a person who collects stamps. This noun–noun compound follows regular English compounding and has direct equivalents in many languages, so a B1 learner knowing both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Stamp collector comes from the simple idea of saving the small paper pictures you find on letters — the stamps — and the person who keeps them, the collector. People would carefully put stamps into books to look at and learn from, so a stamp collector is someone who collects and studies stamps as a 'hobby'.