collectedcol‧lect‧ed /kəˈlektɪd/ adjective 
She wanted to arrive feeling cool, calm, and collected.2collected works/poems/essays/edition all of someone’s books, poems etc printed in one book or set of books: the Collected Works of Shakespeare
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- A set of collected photographs of Ansel Adams are on display in the museum.
- His collected works, he said, probably fill four foot ten of shelf space.
WORD SETS
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY She wanted to arrive feeling cool, calm, and collected.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Outwardly she is cool, calm, and collected.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
She wanted to arrive feeling cool, calm, and collected. Outwardly she is cool, calm, and collected.· I think she mainly collected information for him on foreigners living in London ... by slightly questionable means.
· His collected works, he said, probably fill four foot ten of shelf space.· They were first printed by William Caxton in 1475; the collected works were first illustrated by William Thynne in 1532.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
- Box sets collect music into greatest hits, anthologies, chronologies, complete collected works, best-of and worst-of packages.
- He took down a copy of Wordsworth's collected poems.
- His collected works, he said, probably fill four foot ten of shelf space.
- Its author Tom Holt began, if I remember right, by publishing his collected poems at the age of 12.
- Mr Zhivkov's 44-volume collected works has disappeared from Sofia's bookshops since he was removed.
- My collected works rendered the Horsehead Nebula, goofy space cruisers, robots, and Saturn.
- They were first printed by William Caxton in 1475; the collected works were first illustrated by William Thynne in 1532.
WORD FAMILYnouncollectioncollectorcollectivecollectablecollectiblecollectivismcollectivizationadjectivecollectedcollectivecollectablecollectiblecollectivistverbcollectcollectivizeadverbcollectively
1in control of yourself and your thoughts, feelings etc: She wanted to arrive feeling cool, calm, and collected.2collected works/poems/essays/edition all of someone’s books, poems etc printed in one book or set of books: the Collected Works of Shakespeare