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college
[ kol-ij ]
noun
- an institution of higher learning, especially one providing a general or liberal arts education rather than technical or professional training. Compare university.
- a constituent unit of a university, furnishing courses of instruction in the liberal arts and sciences, usually leading to a bachelor's degree.
- an institution for vocational, technical, or professional instruction, as in medicine, pharmacy, agriculture, or music, often a part of a university.
- an endowed, self-governing association of scholars incorporated within a university, as at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England.
- a similar corporation outside a university.
- the building or buildings occupied by an institution of higher education.
- the administrators, faculty, and students of a college.
- (in Britain and Canada) a private secondary school.
- an organized association of persons having certain powers and rights, and performing certain duties or engaged in a particular pursuit:
The Electoral College formally selects the president.
- a company; assemblage.
- Also called collegium. a body of clergy living together on a foundation for religious service or similar activity.
- British Slang. a prison.
college
/ ˈkɒlɪdʒ /
noun
- an institution of higher education; part of a university
- a school or an institution providing specialized courses or teaching
a college of music
- the building or buildings in which a college is housed
- the staff and students of a college
- an organized body of persons with specific rights and duties See also Sacred College
an electoral college
- a body of clerics living in community and supported by endowment
- an obsolete slang word for prison
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Other Words From
- post·college noun adjective
- pre·college noun adjective
- subcollege noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of college1
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Example Sentences
M. Maspero has often and exhaustively treated this subject, especially in his numerous lectures at the Collège de France.
Out of the Collège poured a small stream of boys, startling the silence of the sleepy little town.
The building they poured out of, now the Collège, was an ancient convent of the Récollets, dating from 1645.
Returning to the Collège de Clermont, he now thought of nothing but of preparing to receive worthily the holy orders.
Tiens, toi-même, quand tu m'as rencontré ce soir, est-ce à nos années de collège passées ensemble que tu as pensé?
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