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means A person who gathers and keeps things — objects, stamps, debts, or dust, depending on the category — often for passion rather than necessity.

from From Latin colligere, 'to gather together' (col- 'together' + legere 'to gather, choose, read'). Legere is the same root that gives us 'lecture' and 'legend' — things gathered and chosen to be read aloud. So the collector and the reader are etymological cousins: one gathers objects, the other gathers words, both practicing the ancient art of picking things out and keeping them close.