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College

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Noun

1. college

the body of faculty and students of a college

2. college

an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university

3. college

a complex of buildings in which an institution of higher education is housed

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

College

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noun
1. 
an institution of higher education; part of a university
2. 
a school or an institution providing specialized courses or teaching
a college of music
3. 
the building or buildings in which a college is housed
4. 
the staff and students of a college
5. 
an organized body of persons with specific rights and duties
an electoral college
See also Sacred College
6. 
a body of clerics living in community and supported by endowment
7. mainly British an obsolete slang word for prison

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

College

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noun
1. 
an association of individuals having certain powers and duties, and engaged in some common pursuit
the electoral college
2. 
an institution of higher education that grants degrees, as a bachelor's degree after a four-year course or an associate degree after a two-year course: it is sometimes the undergraduate division of a university
3. 
any of the schools of a university offering instruction and granting degrees in any of several specialized courses of study, esp. graduate study, as in liberal arts, architecture, law, or medicine
4. 
a school offering specialized instruction in some profession or occupation
a secretarial college
5.  British and Canadian
a private secondary school
6. 
the students, faculty, or administrators of a college
7. 
a clerical group that has been given the legal status of an ecclesiastical corporation
8. 
the building or buildings of a college

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

College

see synonyms of college
n.
1.
a. An institution of higher learning that grants the bachelor's degree in liberal arts or science or both.
b. An undergraduate division or school of a university offering courses and granting degrees in a particular field or group of fields.
c. A junior or community college.
d. A school offering special instruction in a professional or technical subject: a medical college.
e. The students, faculty, and administration of one of these schools or institutions: new policies adopted by the college.
f. The building, buildings, or grounds where one of these schools or institutions is located: drove over to the college.
g. Chiefly British A self-governing society of scholars for study or instruction, incorporated within a university.
h. An institution for secondary education in France and certain other countries that is not supported by the state.
2.
a. A body of persons having a common purpose or shared duties: a college of surgeons.
b. An electoral college.
3. A body of clerics living together on an endowment.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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