collectible

/kəˈlɛktəbəl/

Other forms: collectibles

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."

Definitions of collectible

1. noun

   things considered to be worth collecting (not necessarily valuable or antique)
   synonyms: collectable

   types:

   chachka, tchotchke, tsatske, tshatshke

   (Yiddish) an inexpensive showy trinket

   type of:

   curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity

   something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting
2. adjective

   subject to or requiring payment especially as specified
   “a collectible bill”

   synonyms: collectable, payable

   due

   owed and payable immediately or on demand