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college

[ kol-ij ]

noun

  1. an institution of higher learning, especially 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.


college

/ ˈkɒlɪdʒ /

noun

  1. an institution of higher education; part of a university
  2. a school or an institution providing specialized courses or teaching

    a college of music

  3. the building or buildings in which a college is housed
  4. the staff and students of a college
  5. an organized body of persons with specific rights and duties See also Sacred College

    an electoral college

  6. a body of clerics living in community and supported by endowment
  7. See prison
    an obsolete slang word for prison


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Other Words From

  • post·college noun adjective
  • pre·college noun adjective
  • subcollege noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of college1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Anglo-French, Middle French, from Latin collēgium, from col- col- 1 + lēg-, variant stem of legere “to choose, gather, read” + -ium -ium; colleague

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Word History and Origins

Origin of college1

C14: from Latin collēgium company, society, band of associates, from collēga; see colleague

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Example Sentences

I read The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to by Roots author Alex Haley for the first time in college.

Sadly, most of these innovations never took hold in our schools and colleges, and remote learners today are left with edtech that feels like it is still trapped in the 90s.

InsideSherpa, a Y Combinator graduate, hosts virtual work experience programs for college students all around the world.

The best laid plans of colleges and universities are no assurance during a public health crisis.

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This is the Mexico that U.S. college students would be wise to steer clear of on spring break.

Under the current president and his predecessor, Jett notes, the ambassadorship of Belize has gone to college roommates.

If the oft-talked-about college “hook-up culture” could be embodied by a place, it would be Shooters.

In my four years of college, I know exactly one woman who has asked a man out on a date.

This was also the year Duke University student Belle Knox put college girls on the map.

He was converted and baptized, and was the first Hebrew instructor at Harvard college.

They are very urgent questions; our sons and daughters will have to begin to deal with them from the moment they leave college.

But you will find most colleges and most college societies bar religious instruction and discussion.

In practice we find a good deal of technical study comes into the college stage.

In Scotland and America that is distinguished and thought of clearly as the college stage.

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