College
['kɒlɪdʒ] or ['kɑlɪdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) a complex of buildings in which an institution of higher education is housed.
(noun.) the body of faculty and students of a college.
(noun.) an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university.
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Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A building, or number of buildings, used by a college.
(n.) Fig.: A community.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Society (of persons engaged in common pursuits), community, body.[2]. University, literary institution or seminary of learning (of the highest class).[3]. College edifice or building.
Editor: Terence
Definition
n. an incorporation company or society of persons joined together generally for literary or scientific purposes and often possessing peculiar or exclusive privileges: a member of the body known as the university: (U.S.) often used as the equivalent of university: a seminary of learning: a literary political or religious institution: the edifice appropriated to a college.—n. Coll′eger inmate of a college: one of the seventy foundationers at Eton College.—adj. Collē′gial pertaining to a college.—ns. Collē′gian a member or inhabitant of a college: (slang) inmate of a prison; Collē′gianer a member of a college a student.—adj. Collē′giate pertaining to or resembling a college: containing a college as a town; instituted like a college: corporate.—n. inmate of a prison &c.—College of Arms Heralds' College a collegiate body incorporated in 1483 presided over by the Earl Marshal and including Garter principal King-of-arms Clarenceux and Norroy besides six heralds and four pursuivants: College of Justice in Scotland a great forensic society composed of judges advocates writers to the signet and solicitors.—Collegiate church Collegial church a church so called from having a college or chapter consisting of a dean or provost and canons attached to it (in Scotland a church occupied by two or more pastors of equal rank—also Collegiate charge).
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a college, denotes you are soon to advance to a position long sought after. To dream that you are back in college, foretells you will receive distinction through some well favored work.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
From Fr. colle, pasted or stuck, and etude, study. A place where everyone is stuck on study. (?)
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Examples
- I was attending a little patient in the college near, said he, and saw it dropped out of his chamber window, and so came to pick it up. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- My friends find for me a place in a college, where I teach as at home, and earn enough to make the way smooth for Franz and Emil. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- We had reached the first houses, and were close on the new Wesleyan college, before her set features relaxed and she spoke once more. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The old parsons is worth the whole lump of college lads; they know what belongs to good manners, and is kind to high and low. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A certain set of words and phrases, as much belonging to tourists as the College and the Snuggery belonged to the jail, was always in their mouths. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The dissenting shoemaker wanted Miss Briggs to send his son to college and make a gentleman of him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He was the only friend I made during the two years I was at college. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- They have got some remarkably fine skeletons lately at the College of Surgeons, says Mr. Candy, across the table, in a loud cheerful voice. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Within a few minutes, it was heard in the remotest room in the College. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Probably at about the period when they began to dine on the College charity. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Still, it seems to be fixed that Fred is to go back to college: will it not be better to wait and see what he will choose to do after that? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Going to college ought to satisfy him, for if I give him four years he ought to let me off from the business. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Ben is finishing his studies at college, and continues to behave as well as when you knew him, so that I still think he will make you a good son. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I am compelled, to begin with, to say something of my own college career. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- We'll have capital times after she is gone, for I shall be through college before long, and then we'll go abroad on some nice trip or other. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- He was past both Colleges, Mr. Chillip said, and the Hall could only poison him. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The colleges submit to it whenever they concentrate their attention on the details of the student's vocation before they have built up some cultural background. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Men and women cannot be brought together in schools or colleges at forty or fifty years of age; and if they could the result would be disappointing. Plato. The Republic.
- This degradation, therefore, in the value of the money rents of colleges, has arisen altogether from the degradation in the price of silver. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I am leaving out our colleges, just as I give Mr. Thornton leave to omit his factories in speaking of the charms of Milton. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Our schools and colleges have helped us hardly at all. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The endowments of schools and colleges have necessarily diminished, more or less, the necessity of application in the teachers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I am not a lover of the cultural activities of our schools and colleges, still less am I a lover of shallow specialists. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- At the outbreak of the war in 1861 he was president of one of the Presbyterian synodical colleges in the South, whose buildings passed into the hands of the Government. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Editor: Robert