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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

/ ˈɒɪ /

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. an obsolete slang word for prison
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Other Word Forms

  • Dz·DZl𲵱 noun adjective
  • ·DZl𲵱 noun adjective
  • ܲcDZl𲵱 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 DZŧܳ, from col- col- 1 + ŧ-, 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 DZŧܳ company, society, band of associates, from DZŧ; see colleague
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I have to admit, I felt a little disgruntled upon hearing that yet another player from my favorite college basketball team had entered the transfer portal.

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It’s a who’s who of players who have been great in youth softball and college softball.

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In a list of demands sent to Occidental President Tom Stritikus this week, the hunger strikers re-upped their call for the college to remove direct and indirect investments in weapons-making companies with ties to Israel.

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There was a time when Carson Schwesinger had zero stars, zero college scholarship offers, seemingly zero hope to amount to much in football.

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In high school and college, I was aware that there was this greater format to see the films, but being from the Midwest, I didn’t really have the means.

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