Meanings
proper noun
- A surname from German.
For several days, Mr. Sammler returning on the customary bus late afternoons from the Forty-second Street Library had been watching a pickpocket at work […] Mr. Sammler if he had not been a tall straphanger would not with his one good eye have seen these things happening.
1970, Saul Bellow, chapter 1, in Mr. Sammler’s Planet, Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, published 1971, page 8
Origin
- Germansammeln
- GermanSammler
- EnglishSammler
Borrowed from German Sammler.
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APA
Sammler. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sammler
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“Sammler.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sammler. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Sammler,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Sammler.
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