Meanings
- not comparableIn a collective manner; viewed together as a whole; to be treated as a single unit, rather than the items that make up the collection separately.
...the tube of the throat between the larynx and the oral cavity, which is called the pharynx; the oral cavity; and the nasal cavity. These passages are collectively known as the vocal tract.
2001, Michael Dobrovolsky, “Phonetics: The Sounds of Language”, in William O'Grady, John Archibald, Mark Aronoff, Janie Rees-Miller, editors, Contemporary Linguistics, →ISBN, page 18
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbIn a collective manner; viewed together as a whole; to be treated as a single unit, rather than the items that make up the collection separately.
More synonyms by meaning
adverbin conjunction with; combined
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latincollēctīvus
- Middle Frenchcollectif
- Englishcollective
- Englishcollectively
From collective + -ly.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek ἀθρόως
- ἀθρόως (athróōs)in a collective manner
Catalan col·lectivament
- col·lectivamentin a collective manner
Chinese Mandarin 总地来说
- 总地来说 (zǒng de lái shuō)in a collective manner
Esperanto ope
- opein a collective manner
Hebrew בְּיַחַד
- בְּיַחַד (b'yáḥad)in a collective manner
Italian collettivamente
- collettivamentein a collective manner
Polish zbiorowo
- zbiorowoin a collective manner
Russian коллекти́вно, вме́сте
- коллекти́вно (kollektívno)in a collective manner
- вме́сте (vméste)in a collective manner
- совме́стно (sovméstno)in a collective manner
Spanish colectivamente
- colectivamentein a collective manner
Swedish kollektivt
- kollektivtin a collective manner
Cite this entry
collectively. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/collectively
“collectively.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/collectively. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “collectively,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/collectively.
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