stamp collecting

noun

1. another name for philately

Derived Forms

• stamp collector, noun

Example Sentences

Some compare the stamp collecting to a blessed version of baseball cards.

From Seattle Times

This is more humiliating than being turned away from a stamp collecting convention for being too nerdy.

From Salon

But new surveillance technologies must not lead to what Van Kerkhove calls “a stamp collecting exercise”: simply identifying the hundreds of thousands of viruses in wild and captive animals.

From Science Magazine

Rae’s love of stamp collecting was instilled in her as a child, thanks to her grandparents.

From The Guardian

According to one history of the project, “It was considered to be weak science, akin to stamp collecting.”

From The Guardian