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Collectivist

Definition: Collectivist

Collectivist

Adjective

1. Subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively.

Noun

1. A person who belongs to the political left.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "collectivist" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references)

Etymology: Collectivist \Col*lect"iv*ist\, noun. [Compare to the French expression collectiviste.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Collectivist

Synonyms: collectivised (adj), collectivistic (adj), collectivized (adj), state-controlled (adj), leftist (n), left-winger (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Collectivist

DomainTitle

Books

  • British Politics In the Collectivist Age (reference)

  • Collectivist Economic Planning: Critical Studies (reference)

  • Discourse and Knowledge: Defence of a Collectivist Ethics (reference)

  • Moral Passages: Toward a Collectivist Moral Theory (reference)

  • The Clubwomen's Daughters : Collectivist Impulses in Progressive-era Girl's Fiction, 1890-1940 (Garland Studies in American Popular History and Culture) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Collectivist

"Collectivist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.80% of the time. "Collectivist" is used about 83 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)98.8%8236,594
Adjective (general or positive)1.2%1339,140
                    Total100.00%83N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Collectivist

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "collectivist": anti-collectivist, paternalist-collectivist.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Collectivist

Language Translations for "collectivist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Anhänger (acolyte, adherent, adherents, adherer, clinger, devotee, devotees, disciple, enthusiast, fan, follower, hanger, henchman, label, marketeer, member, partisan, pendant, pendants, supporter, tag, trailer, trailers). (various references)

   

Italian

  

collettivista. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ollectivistcay

   

Romanian

  

colectivist. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ortaklaşacı, kolektivist. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người theo chủ nghĩa tập thể. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Collectivist

Derivations

Words beginning with "collectivist": collectivistic, collectivistically, collectivists. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Collectivist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: collectivise, collectivit, collectivite. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Collectivist"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "collectivist" (pronounced kule"ktivi'st)
6-t i v i' s tnativist.
5-i v i' s trecidivist.
3-i' s tabsurdist, astrophysicist, backlist, baptist, bassist, blacklist, careerist, centrist, chartist, checklist, cheesiest, chemist, clearest, climatologist, conformist, constructionist, consumerist, corporatist, costliest, counterterrorist, cubist, cutest, czarist, defeatist, dramatist, dualist, egotist, essayist, evangelist, expansionist, experimentalist, fatalist, flavorist, flutist, futurist, gradualist, harpist, horticulturist, humanist, jurist, lyrist, minimalist, monarchist, monetarist, moralist, nicest, nudist, optimist, optometrist, parodist, percussionist, perfectionist, pharmacologist, physicist, pinkest, podiatrist, practiced, pragmatist, publicist, purist, realist, reformist, religionist, revisionist, revivalist, royalist, satanist, saxophonist, sensationalist, sexist, soloist, statist, stylist, suffragist, terrorist, trombonist, typist, vaguest.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Collectivist

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-e-i-i-l-l-o-s-t-t-v"

-4 letters: collects, osteitic, scilicet, tillites.

-5 letters: cellist, cilices, citoles, clitics, colitic, colitis, collect, collets, collies, costive, elicits, elitist, icicles, illites, iolites, litotes, litotic, littles, oiliest, scottie, silicle, solicit, tictocs, tillite, toilets, villose, violets, violist, vitelli, vittles.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-e-i-i-l-l-o-s-t-t-v"
 

+1 letter: collectivists.

 

+2 letters: collectivistic, collectivities.

 

+5 letters: collectivizations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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