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Greetings fellow humans,
I am trying to find a word which means 'collector of people'. Possible prefixes I've considered are homo- and anthro-, but these aren't quite right. The only suffix I've thought of is -phile but that isn't quite right either.
If anyone can help to answer this question or point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers, Cassandra
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What type of collector are we talking about? Headhunter, slaver, autograph hound, "zoo" keeper, serial killer, paparazzo???
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I'm sure Cass is looking for a term to describe the kind of guy who analyzes folks' character then categorizes them
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Hmm.. probably not in the serial killer category! A friend asked me this question and I think she meant someone who collects interesting people over the course of their lifetime, be it in a benevolent way, a social-climber way, or in a clinical way, as in collecting stamps or fossils. Is that any help?! Any definition would be helpful, as it may point the way to the definition I'm after. Thanks!
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Anthrologist? That is more like 'studier'. Oh, did you want a real word? Anthropologist seems to connote a bone collector.
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Cass: I had thought that's what I was suggesting, but you put it much better
As Jackie did, I had also consulted the reverse dict with no luck whatever. It's likely that there is simply no such word
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Welcome, Cassandra. :-) I ran your phrase through Onelook's Reverse Dictionary, and didn't find anything that fit. There are some neat words, there, though, like timbromaniac. And brandophilist; hey, tsuwm, how come it isn't bandophilist? And, if anyone cares to go look, what in the world is that little squiggle thing in #16? little squiggle thing
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>>little squiggle thing<< I get little boxes, no squiggle thingy.
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Quote:
>>little squiggle thing<<
I get little boxes, no squiggle thingy.
I get ?s, not squiggles or boxes!?
edit: but at AHD I see Bartók, Béla, so that's a cute accent
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