collectible
Americanadjective
noun
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Origin of collectible
Explanation
An object that's valuable enough to you that you really want to own it is a collectible. Think of your grandpa's collectible coins or your cousin's collectible baseball cards. Use this word as a noun or an adjective, to describe anything that people like to collect. Some collectibles are quite valuable, like a collection of antique diamond rings. Others have value only to the collector, like your sister's collectible school lunch menus. Collectible is derived from the Latin colligere, "gather together."
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The “KPop Demon Hunters” collaboration with McDonald’s, released in late March, featured two “dueling” adult meals that each came with a collectible card.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
Ebay has a different business model to Amazon, with its focus on auctions, second-hand goods, and collectible items.
From BBC • May 17, 2026
Meat and marrow, Fagan points out, were never the main event but an occasional supplement to a diet of plants and other collectible foods.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
“We don’t know exactly what he was doing, but we know there is a secondary market to be able to sell these collectible figures,” Azarcon said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2026
Clarisse had armed herself with a highly collectible rams-horn spear from the Cyclops’s cave.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
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