What is the word for people who collect ... ? Generally
speaking, most people who collect something are just known as
'xxxx collectors', for example 'a fossil collector' or 'a doll
collector'. Various terms do exist to describe people who
collect specific items, for example: - philatelist - stamps -
numismatist - coins and banknotes - lepidopterist - butterflies
and moths - coleopterist - beetles - dipterist - flies -
arctophile - teddy bears - oologist - birds' eggs - deltiologist
- postcards - notaphilist - banknotes - tegestologist - beer
mats - phillumenist - matchboxes or matchbook labels -
scripophilist - old bond and share certificates Nevertheless,
only the first few items on this list have much genuine currency
in English. And, judging by the evidence in our databases, even
in these cases the 'xxxx collector' form is often just as
commonly used as the specialist term. For example, the Oxford
English Corpus currently contains 125 examples of philatelist
and 131 instances of stamp collector, and 56 cas