col·lege   (kŏl'ĭj)    n.   An institution of higher learning that grants the bachelor's degree in liberal arts or science or both. An undergraduate division or school of a university offering courses and granting degrees in a particular field. A school, sometimes but not always a university, offering special instruction in professional or technical subjects. The students, faculty, and administration of such a school or institution. The building or buildings occupied by such a school or institution. Chiefly British A self-governing society of scholars for study or instruction, incorporated within a university. An institution in France for secondary education that is not supported by the state. A body of persons having a common purpose or shared duties: a college of surgeons. An electoral college. A body of persons having a common purpose or shared duties: a college of surgeons. An electoral college. A body of clerics living together on an endowment. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin collēgium, association; see collegium.]

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Col"lege\, n. [F. coll[`e]ge, L. collegium, fr. collega colleague. See Colleague.]

1. A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops.

The college of the cardinals. --Shak.

Then they made colleges of sufferers; persons who, to secure their inheritance in the world to come, did cut off all their portion in this. --Jer. Taylor.

2. A society of scholars or friends of learning, incorporated for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of knowledge; as, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and many American colleges.

Note: In France and some other parts of continental Europe, college is used to include schools occupied with rudimentary studies, and receiving children as pupils.

3. A building, or number of buildings, used by a college. "The gate of Trinity College." --Macaulay.

4. Fig.: A community. [R.]

Thick as the college of the bees in May. --Dryden.

College of justice, a term applied in Scotland to the supreme civil courts and their principal officers.

The sacred college, the college or cardinals at Rome.

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Heb. mishneh (2 Kings 22:14; 2 Chr. 34:22), rendered in Revised Version "second quarter", the residence of the prophetess Huldah. The Authorized Version followed the Jewish commentators, who, following the Targum, gave the Hebrew word its post-Biblical sense, as if it meant a place of instruction. It properly means the "second," and may therefore denote the lower city (Acra), which was built after the portion of the city on Mount Zion, and was enclosed by a second wall.