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1. (n.) college
an institution of higher learning that provides a general education in the liberal arts and sciences and grants a bachelor's degree.
2. college
a constituent unit of a university offering instruction in a particular field of study.
3. college
an institution for vocational, technical, or professional instruction:
a business college.
4. college
an endowed, self-governing association of scholars incorporated within a university, as at Oxford and Cambridge in England.
5. college
the building or buildings occupied by an institution of higher education.
6. college
the administrators, faculty, and students of a college.
7. college
Brit. a private secondary school.
8. college
an organized association of persons having certain powers and rights, and performing certain duties or engaged in a particular pursuit:
the electoral college.
9. college
a company; assemblage.
10. college
a body of clerics living in a funded institution.
Etymology: (1350–1400; ME < AF, MF < L collēgium society; cf. colleague)
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| Definition of 'College' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) college
the body of faculty and students of a college
2. (noun) college
an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university
3. (noun) college
a complex of buildings in which an institution of higher education is housed
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1. (noun) college
an educational institution students attend after high school to obtain a degree
colleges and universities in the Boston area; Dartmouth College; Where do you go to college?; a college degree; college students
2. college
go to college
to study at a college or university
Where do you go to college?
3. college
at college
at a college or a university
away at college
4. college
a section or department of some universities
the College of Arts and Sciences; Trinity College Cambridge
5. college
in the U.K., a place of higher study where students gain practical qualifications
an agricultural college
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| Definition of 'College' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) College
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
2. (noun) College
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
3. (noun) College
a building, or number of buildings, used by a college
4. (noun) College
fig.: A community
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The Roycroft Dictionary |
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College
A place where you have to go in order to find out that there is nothing in it. (See Marriage.)
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Sense: (any or all of the buildings housing) a higher-education institution
He studies at agricultural college.
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 Afrikaans: kollege |
 Arabic: كُلِّيَّه |
 Bulgarian: колеж |
 Brazilian: faculdade |
 Czech: vysoká škola |
 German: das College |
 Danish: højere læreanstalt; vider |
 Greek: κολέγιο |
 Spanish: escuela universitaria, fa |
 Estonian: kolledž |
 Farsi: دانشکده؛ مدرسۀ عالی |
 Finnish: korkeakoulu |
 French: établissement d'enseignem |
 Hebrew: מִכלָלָה |
 Hindi: महाविद्यालय |
 Croatian: viša, visoka škola |
 Hungarian: főiskola |
 Indonesian: perguruan tinggi |
 Icelandic: framhaldsskóli |
 Italian: facoltà, istituto univers |
 Japanese: 大学 |
 Korean: (단과) 대학 |
 Lithuanian: koledžas |
 Latvian: koledža |
 Malay: kolej |
 Dutch: instelling voor hoger ond |
 Norwegian: høyskole; fakultet på uni |
 Polish: uczelnia, wydział |
 Persian: دانشکده؛ مدرسۀ عالی |
 Pashto: پوهنځى: اختصاصى تعليمى مو |
 Portuguese: faculdade |
 Romanian: facultate |
 Russian: университет;колледж |
 Slovak: vysoká škola |
 Slovenian: visokašola |
 Serbian: koledž |
 Swedish: college |
 Thai: วิทยาลัย |
 Turkish: kolej, yüksek okul |
 Taiwanese: 學院 |
 Ukrainian: коледж |
 Urdu: کالج ، ، کلیہ |
 Vietnamese: trường cao đẳng |
 Chinese: 学院 |
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