Collins Definition

kŏlənz
noun
An iced drink made with gin (Tom Collins), or vodka, rum, whiskey, etc., mixed with soda water, lime or lemon juice, and sugar.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • william wilkie collins
  • Wilkie Collins
  • tom-collins
pronoun

An English patronymic surname​ from the given name Colin, pet form of Coll (Nicholas).

Wiktionary

An Irish surname​, anglicized from the Gaelic Ó Coileáin.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Collins

Noun

Singular:
collins
Plural:
collinses

Origin of Collins

  • Probably from the name Collins

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Collins Sentence Examples

  • Thus it was Bentley versus Collins, Sherlock versus Woolston, Law versus Tindal.

  • Speaker of the senate, John Collins dying in 1822.

  • Collins, who had created much excitement by his Discourse of Free-thinking, insisting on the value and necessity of unprejudiced inquiry, published at a later stage of the deistic controversy the famous argument on the evidences of Christianity.

  • Two striking churches face each other in Collins Street, the Scots church, a Gothic edifice with a lofty spire, and the Independent church, a fine Saracenic building with a massive campanile.

  • In 1724 Collins published his Discourse of the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion, with An Apology for Free Debate and Liberty of Writing prefixed.

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Words Starting With

CCOCOL

Words Ending With

SNSINS

Unscrambles

collins

Words Starting With C and Ending With S

Starts With C & Ends With SStarts With CO & Ends With SStarts With C & Ends With NS

Word Length

7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With C7 Letter Words Ending With S