英和和英

名詞

amasser (plural amassers)

1. One who amasses.
   • 1677, John Webster, chapter 4, in The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft‎, London, page 59:

     [He] was a man of prodigious pride and vain-glory, which led him […] into no small errours, being a great Amasser of strange and incredible stories, led to relate them by his meer ambition of hunting after fame and the reputation of an universal Scholar.

   • 1821, William Hazlitt, Table-Talk, London: John Warren, Essay 11, “On Thought and Action,” p. 260,

     The amassers of fortunes seem divided into two opposite classes, lean, penurious-looking mortals, or jolly fellows who are determined to get possession of, because they want to enjoy the good things of the world.

   • 1941, Cole Porter, “Pets,” lyrics written for the Broadway musical Let’s Face It! cited in Robert Kimball (ed.), The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter, New York: Da Capo, 1992, p. 309,

     Some folks collect paintings,

     Some folks collect stamps,

     Some are amassers

     Of antimacassars

     And other Victorian camps.

   • 1944, George Weller, Bases Overseas, excerpt published in Anthony Weller (ed.), Weller’s War, New York: Crown, 2009, p. 488,

     The first act of the Japanese army on arriving at a new island is to go fishing and start a garden. The first act of the Americans is to buy something from the natives. The American is an amasser.

   • 2014, Judith Donath, chapter 11, in The Social Machine: Designs for Living Online,‎, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, page 280:

     Marketers […] are among the most voracious amassers of information about what people do and say online.

同意語

• accumulator
• collector

アナグラム

• samares