See Also: collectivity(dictionary)

teat (oh) and collectivity (iou)


teat (oh)



[Date: 1100-1200; Language: Old French; Origin: tete]
BrE the rubber part on a baby's bottle that the baby sucks milk from
American Equivalent: nipple
one of the small parts on a female animal's body that her babies suck milk from

collectivity (iou)



collectivity noun. M19.
[from COLLECTIVE + -ITY: in senses 2 and 3 after French collectivite.]
Collective quality. M19.
Collectivism. L19.
A group or community of people bound together by common beliefs or interests. L19.
S. Neill He uses the term..in the plural..for the churches as a collectivity in which a common faith and a common order prevail.
An aggregate, a whole. L19.
J. Z. Young The relation of the individual to the collectivity of men.