About The Word College
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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.
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