collar

1 of 2

noun

col·lar ˈkä-lər

Synonyms of collar next

: a band, strip, or chain worn around the neck: such as

: a band that serves to finish or decorate the neckline of a garment

: a short necklace

: a band placed about the neck of an animal

: a part of the harness of draft animals fitted over the shoulders and taking strain when a load is drawn

: an indication of control : a token of subservience

: a protective or supportive device (such as a brace or cast) worn around the neck

: clerical collar

: something resembling a collar in shape or use (such as a ring or round flange to restrain motion or hold something in place)

: any of various animal structures or markings similar to a collar

: an act of collaring : arrest, capture

collared

ˈkä-lərd

adjective

collarless

ˈkä-lər-ləs

adjective

collar

2 of 2

verb

collared; collaring; collars

transitive verb

: to seize by the collar or neck

: arrest, grab

: to get control of : preempt

we can collar nearly the whole of this market—

Roald Dahl

: to stop and detain in unwilling conversation

collar the guest of honor

: to put a collar on

collar a dog

Examples of collar in a Sentence

Noun He wore a shirt with a tight-fitting collar. She grabbed me by the collar. I bought a new collar for the dog. Verb The police collared the guy a few blocks from the scene. He collared me on my way out the door.

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Noun

So many of these are small, rural counties with blue collar populations. —

NBC News, 10 Nov. 2024 Joining Beverly Hills and Coronado in rebelling against state housing rules: this blue collar city. —

Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024

Verb

Timberlake was collared and charged with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated. —

Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 26 July 2024 Roach spoke about his attempts to automate drone searches at a meeting of Lake District pilots and remembers Binks collaring him afterward. —

Tristan Kennedy, WIRED, 7 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for collar

Word History

Etymology

Noun

latinization of earlier and Middle English coler, borrowed from Anglo-French coler, colere "collar, necklace" (also continental Old French coler), going back to Latin collāre "neck band, collar," noun derivative from neuter of collāris "of the neck," from collum, collus "neck" + -āris -ar; collum, collus going back to dialectal Indo-European *k^(w)olso-, whence also Germanic *halsa-, whence Old English heals, hals "neck," Old Frisian hals, hāls, Old Saxon, Old High German, Old Icelandic & Gothic hals

Note: Old French also has collier "collar for an animal," going back to Late Latin collārium, attested ca. 500, from collāre by suffix substitution; this is the source of modern French collier "collar, necklace." — The etymon *k^(w)olso- is often taken to be based on Indo-European *k^wel- "turn," perhaps as a thematized derivative *k^wels-o-/*k^wols-o- of the s-stem seen in Old Church Slavic koles-, kolo "wheel" (see wheel entry 1). Comparable would be Lithuanian kãklas "neck, throat," from reduplicated *k^wo-k^wl-o, the neck being the body part that turns the head. However, it has been objected that *k^wo- in Germanic would not necessarily lose rounding. The precise formation is in any case limited to Italic and Germanic.

Verb

derivative of collar entry 1

First Known Use

Noun

13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb

1613, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

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The first known use of collar was in the 13th century

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Kids Definition

collar

1 of 2 noun

col·lar ˈkäl-ər

: a band, strip, or chain worn around the neck or the neckline of a garment

: a part of the harness of draft animals fitted over the shoulders

: something (as a ring to hold something in place) resembling a collar

collared

-ərd

adjective

collarless

-ər-ləs

adjective

collar

2 of 2 verb

: to seize by the collar

: to take possession of : grab

: to put a collar on

Medical Definition

collar

noun

col·lar ˈkäl-ər

: a protective or supporting device (such as a brace or cast) worn around the neck

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