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collegiate

[ kuh-lee-jit, -jee-it ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to a college:

    collegiate life.

  2. of, characteristic of, or intended for college students:

    collegiate clothes; a collegiate dictionary.

  3. of the nature of or constituted as a college.


noun

  1. (in Canada) collegiate institute.

collegiate

/ kəˈliːdʒɪɪt /

adjective

  1. Alsocollegial of or relating to a college or college students
  2. (of a university) composed of various colleges of equal standing


noun

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Other Words From

  • col·legiate·ly adverb
  • col·legiate·ness noun
  • postcol·legiate adjective
  • precol·legiate adjective
  • procol·legiate adjective
  • pseudo·col·legiate adjective
  • quasi-col·legiate adjective
  • subcol·legiate adjective
  • uncol·legiate adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of collegiate1

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English word from Late Latin word collēgiātus. See college, -ate 1

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Example Sentences

The NFL has not taken the road that the National Collegiate Athletic Association traveled in 2005.

So I go to have both the art school experience and the American typical collegiate experience.

I did one semester at Boulder, which was more a stereotypical, American collegiate experience.

More than 500 colleges use a test called the Collegiate Learning Assessment to measure academic progress.

But Rev. Jacqui Lewis, a pastor at Middle Collegiate Church in Manhattan said this is not the case.

We as heretofore, have been on the extreme; either no qualification at all, or a Collegiate education.

She couldn't make out what, for all the Academic and Collegiate girls whispered about it secretly at recess.

The senior course in our high school comprises collegiate subjects.

England was not going to confer its greatest collegiate honor without being permitted to pay its wider and more popular tribute.

After the dissolution of the collegiate establishment the church at Howden began to be neglected.

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