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  1. universitiesnoun

    Plural form of university.

Wikipedia

  1. universities

    A university (from Latin universitas 'a whole') is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the designation is reserved for colleges that have a graduate school.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Universities

    of University

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Universities

    Educational institutions providing facilities for teaching and research and authorized to grant academic degrees.

Editors Contribution

  1. universities

    Plural form of the word university.

    Universities are an important element of an educational system.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 31, 2020  

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'universities' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3621

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'universities' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4090

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of universities in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of universities in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of universities in a Sentence

  1. Eduardo Jesus Zimmermann:

    Our public education used to be excellent, people came from all over Latin America to study at Argentine universities, now Argentines head to the United States, England or elsewhere abroad because public universities are a disaster.

  2. Cherise Trump:

    Universities exist for the free exchange of ideas, and the decision by theStudent Senate to promote one political opinion while banning another is dangerous and wrong.

  3. Prime Minister Scott Morrison:

    We are working on some projects with the education sector... but lets not forget our universities are well capitalized.

  4. Whenever Matthew Dunn:

    In my day I was approached at university by a talent spotter, back then MI6 had a whole network of talent spotters spread across the whole country, predominately but not exclusively in universities. Essentially, that was pretty much the only way to get in, i.e. they approached you, not the other way round.

  5. Mark Whitworth:

    We are going to solicit universities and research institutes to conduct studies, and we are going to make the property available to them.

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