[kol-ij] 
| 1. | an institution of higher learning, esp. one providing a general or liberal arts education rather than technical or professional training. Compare university. |
| 2. | a constituent unit of a university, furnishing courses of instruction in the liberal arts and sciences, usually leading to a bachelor's degree. |
| 3. | an institution for vocational, technical, or professional instruction, as in medicine, pharmacy, agriculture, or music, often a part of a university. |
| 4. | an endowed, self-governing association of scholars incorporated within a university, as at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England. |
| 5. | a similar corporation outside a university. |
| 6. | the building or buildings occupied by an institution of higher education. |
| 7. | the administrators, faculty, and students of a college. |
| 8. | (in Britain and Canada) a private secondary school. |
| 9. | 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. |
| 10. | a company; assemblage. |
| 11. | Also called collegium. a body of clergy living together on a foundation for religious service or similar activity. |
| 12. | British Slang. a prison. |
| col·lege (kŏl'ĭj) n.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin collēgium, association; see collegium.] |
College
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.
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