Amassers

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. To gather and accumulate a significant quantity of items or resources from various sources
2. to hoard or collect an increasingly large amount of something over time
3. to assemble a diverse range of possessions or wealth through sustained effort and consolidation

Etymology: Amassers is simply the plural of "amasser", which is built from the verb "amass" plus the agent suffix "-er". The verb "amass" comes to English through Old French and ultimately from Latin, and the suffix has a long descent of its own: it traces back through Latin "-arius" to Old English "-ere", the ending that once marked a person who performed an action. Old French "-ier" and Middle English "-er" carried the same sense forward, so an amasser is literally one who heaps something up. Because the suffix is so productive, the same pattern appears in countless English words, from "baker" to "banker", and the meaning of the base verb does most of the work here. To amass is to gather a large quantity over time, so an amasser is someone who gathers, in particular wealth.

Synonyms: collectors, gatherers, accumulators, hoarders, assemblers

Antonyms: distributors, spreaders, dispersers, donors, scatterers