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college

college

60 1.0
All the teachers and students who work and study at the same school
  • noun
  • /ˈkɑlɪdʒ/
: comunidad universitaria
  • Still have not been able to locate the two college students.
  • college students
  • college faculty
  • attend college

And then one of my best friends from college was the cheerleading.

Examples

  • The professors and students collaborated on a project to improve the college's academic standing.

  • You know, someday, Sarah, you're going to settle down, and you're going to marry a college professor.

  • I was, you know, I was very focused on college and, and film.

  • Tell that to the college kids you keep giving our shoes away to for free.

  • My last game in college was in Arizona.

  • What better opportunity to get God's message to a group of college kids?

  • The act of students becoming members of college social systems is vital to student retention.

    Academic text (2011)
  • They met someone in college, they fell in love.

  • She went to a girls' college.

  • Our group is made up of twelve college professors visiting Vietnam, ten for the first time.

    Fiction book (1995)

Synonyms

university
vscollege
3 1.0

The group of people who teach and study at a place for higher learning

is the same collective group but at another kind of higher school

Compounds

182 1.0

A person studying at a college or university to get a first degree

127 3.0

A local public college that offers two-year courses for job skills or study before university

86 5.9

A group of people chosen to elect the United States president and vice president

38 3.2

A college that offers the first two years of study after high school

college girl
  • Informal
35 2.0

A young woman who studies at a college or university

college boy
  • Informal
28 3.0

A man who studies or once studied at college

16 3.9

The knowledge and skills a college or university student should have

college man
  • Informal
8 3.0

A man who is or was a student at a college

A college that trains people to teach in primary schools

A person you date and care about during college

3 7.1

A group of Catholic cardinals who elect and advise the pope

A college that teaches practical office skills for business, like typing and accounting

1 3.0

A college that teaches the skills needed for a job

cow college
  • Offensive
1 9.1

A college that teaches farming and is often called low quality as an insult

A well known private school for boys in Winchester, England

1 5.9

A famous British boarding school for boys in Berkshire

Eton College
  • Literature
7.4

A name for the powerful British people who went to the school

A group of senior Catholic church leaders who elect and advise the pope

A group of cardinals in the Catholic Church who elect and advise the Pope

How Large

university
∞ 1.0
college
60 1.0
department
∞ 1.8

Surface Forms

college singular
colleges plural

Etymology

College comes from the Latin word collegium, meaning 'a group chosen to work together', and you can see the idea in the word colleague. That's why college can mean the people who belong to the school—the faculty and students who work and study together.