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College Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of College? [n] a complex of buildings in which a college is housed [n] British slang for prison [n] the body of faculty and students of a college [n] an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university Synonyms \| Synonyms for College: Related Terms \| Find terms related to College: academe \| academia \| alliance \| alma mater \| assemblage \| association \| axis \| band \| bloc \| body \| Bund \| caboose \| can \| chokey \| coalition \| college of engineering \| combination \| combine \| common market \| community college \| confederacy \| confederation \| consumer cooperative \| cooperative \| cooperative society \| corps \| council \| credit union \| customs union \| degree-granting institution \| economic community \| federation \| four-year college \| free trade area \| gang \| graduate school \| group \| grouping \| hoosegow \| institute of technology \| ivied halls \| journalism school \| jug \| junior college \| law school \| league \| lockup \| machine \| medical school \| mob \| multiversity \| normal \| normal school \| partnership \| political machine \| postgraduate school \| prison \| ring \| Rochdale cooperative \| rock pile \| school of communications \| school of education \| society \| stir \| two-year college \| union \| university \| university college \| varsity See Also \| academe \| academia \| body \| building complex \| business college \| college \| complex \| educational institution \| junior college \| prison \| prison house \| training college \| university College In Webster's Dictionary \Col"lege\, n. [F. coll[`e]ge, L. collegium, fr. collega colleague. See {Colleague}.] 1. 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. The college of the cardinals. --Shak. Then they made colleges of sufferers; persons who, to secure their inheritance in the world to come, did cut off all their portion in this. --Jer. Taylor. 2. 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. Note: In France and some other parts of continental Europe, college is used to include schools occupied with rudimentary studies, and receiving children as pupils. 3. A building, or number of buildings, used by a college. ``The gate of Trinity College.'' --Macaulay. 4. Fig.: A community. [R.] Thick as the college of the bees in May. --Dryden. {College of justice}, a term applied in Scotland to the supreme civil courts and their principal officers. {The sacred college}, the college or cardinals at Rome.

College Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of College?

[n] a complex of buildings in which a college is housed
[n] British slang for prison
[n] the body of faculty and students of a college
[n] an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university

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College In Webster's Dictionary

\Col"lege\, n. [F. coll[`e]ge, L. collegium, fr. collega
colleague. See {Colleague}.]
1. 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.

         The college of the cardinals.         --Shak.

         Then they made colleges of sufferers; persons who,
         to secure their inheritance in the world to come,
         did cut off all their portion in this. --Jer.
                                               Taylor.

2. 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.

Note: In France and some other parts of continental Europe,
      college is used to include schools occupied with
      rudimentary studies, and receiving children as pupils.

3. A building, or number of buildings, used by a college.
   ``The gate of Trinity College.'' --Macaulay.

4. Fig.: A community. [R.]

         Thick as the college of the bees in May. --Dryden.

{College of justice}, a term applied in Scotland to the
   supreme civil courts and their principal officers.

{The sacred college}, the college or cardinals at Rome.

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