Collective

1. n. A collective noun or name.
2. a. Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation.
3. a. Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.
4. a. Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form; as, a collective name or noun, like assembly, army, jury, etc.
5. a. Tending to collect; forming a collection.
6. a. Having plurality of origin or authority; as, in diplomacy, a note signed by the representatives of several governments is called a collective note.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.