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Webster 1913 Edition
College
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 bishopsThe
college
of the cardinals. Shakespeare
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
☞ 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.
Webster 1828 Edition
College
COLLEGE
,Noun.
1.
In a general sense, a collection, assemblage or society of men, invested with certain powers and rights, performing certain duties, or engaged in some common employment, or pursuit.2.In a particular sense, an assembly for a political or ecclesiastical purpose as the college of Electors or their deputies at the diet in Ratisbon. So also, the college of princes, or their deputies; the college of cities, or deputies of the Imperial cities; the college of Cardinals, or sacred college. In Russia, the denomination, college, is given to councils of state, courts or assemblies of men intrusted with the administration of the government, and called Imperial college; the college of foreign affairs; the college of war; the admiralty college; the college of justice; the college of commerce; the medical college.
In Great Britain and the United States of America, a society of physicians is called a college. So also there are colleges of surgeons; and in Britain, a college of philosophy, a college of heralds, a college of justice, &c. Colleges of these kinds are usually incorporated or established by the supreme power of the state.
3.
An edifice appropriated to the use of students, who are acquiring the languages and sciences.4.
The society of persons engaged in the pursuits of literature, including the officers and students. Societies of this kind are incorporated and endowed with revenues.5.
In foreign universities, a public lecture.Definition 2024
college
college
See also: collège
English
Noun
college (plural colleges)
- (obsolete) A corporate group; a group of colleagues.
- (in some proper nouns) A group sharing common purposes or goals.
- College of Cardinals, College of Surgeons
- (politics) An electoral college.
- An academic institution. [From 1560s.]
- A specialized division of a university.
- College of Engineering
- (chiefly US) An institution of higher education teaching undergraduates.
- (attributively, chiefly US) Attendance at an institution of higher education.
- These should be his college years, but he joined the Army.
- (Canada, Israel) A postsecondary institution that offers vocational training and/or associate's degrees.
- (chiefly Britain) A non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university, with its own faculty, departments, library, etc.
- Pembroke College, Cambridge; Balliol College, Oxford; University College, London
- (Britain) An institution of further education at an intermediate level; sixth form.
- (Britain) An institution for adult education at a basic or intermediate level (teaching those of any age).
- (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa) A high school or secondary school.
- Eton College
- (Australia) A private (non-government) primary or high school.
- (Australia) A residential hall associated with a university, possibly having its own tutors.
- (in Chile) A bilingual school.
Synonyms
- (specialized division of a university) department, faculty, school
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- fresh-out-of-college
- out-of-college
Related terms
Related terms
Translations
group of colleagues
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group sharing common purposes or goals
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politics: electoral college — see electoral college
academic institution
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institution of higher education
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institution of higher education teaching undergraduates
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attendance at an institution of higher education
postsecondary institution that does not award bachelor's degrees
non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university
specialized division of a university
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in the formal names of private schools: secondary school
institution of further education at an intermediate level
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high school or secondary school
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institution for adult education at a basic or intermediate level
residential hall of a university
See also
Finnish
Pronunciation
Noun
college
- college (learning institution)
- college sweatshirt
Declension
This table shows the spoken declension with IPA symbols, which falls nicely into risti -class.
Declension of college (irregular)
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Written declension is more complicated due to the difficulty of combining "college" with risti-type endings. Therefore, it might be advisable to avoid inflecting this word in writing by using synonyms, when available. If one has to, one option is to write as if the pronunciation were finnicized to /ˈko̞lːe̞ge̞/, in which case the word would fall into nalle-category with the exception that collegeiden seems to be more commonly used as genitive plural than collegejen and collegein is not used as genitive plural:
| Inflection of college (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | college | colleget | |
| genitive | collegen | collegejen | |
| partitive | collegea | collegeja | |
| illative | collegeen | collegeihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | college | colleget | |
| accusative | nom. | college | colleget |
| gen. | collegen | ||
| genitive | collegen | collegejen collegeinrare |
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| partitive | collegea | collegeja | |
| inessive | collegessa | collegeissa | |
| elative | collegesta | collegeista | |
| illative | collegeen | collegeihin | |
| adessive | collegella | collegeilla | |
| ablative | collegelta | collegeilta | |
| allative | collegelle | collegeille | |
| essive | collegena | collegeina | |
| translative | collegeksi | collegeiksi | |
| instructive | — | collegein | |
| abessive | collegetta | collegeitta | |
| comitative | — | collegeineen | |
Synonyms
- (sweatshirt): collegepusero
Old French
Etymology
Noun
college m (oblique plural colleges, nominative singular colleges, nominative plural college)
- institution; organization (establishment of people with similar aims/goals)
- college des Cardinaux
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- college des Cardinaux