college
English
/ˈkɒlɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈkɑlɪd͡ʒ/
noun
Definitions
- (obsolete) A corporate group; a group of colleagues.
- (in some proper nouns) A group sharing common purposes or goals.
- (politics) An electoral college.
- An academic institution.
- A specialized division of a university.
- (chiefly) An institution of higher education teaching undergraduates.
- (Ireland) A university.
- (attributively) Attendance at an institution of higher education.
- (Canada) A postsecondary institution that offers vocational training and/or associate's degrees.
- (chiefly) A non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university, with its own faculty, departments, library, etc.
- (UK) An institution of further education at an intermediate level; sixth form.
- (UK) An institution for adult education at a basic or intermediate level (teaching those of any age).
- (UK) A high school or secondary school.
- (Australia) A private (non-government) primary primary or high school.
- (Australia) A residential hall associated with a university, possibly having its own tutors.
- (Singapore) A government high school, short for junior college.
- (in Chile) A bilingual school.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English college derived from Old French college.
Origin
Old French
college
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- anticollege English
- bound English
- college-goer English
- collegebound English
- collegegoer English
- collegeless English
- collegelike English
- collegemate English
- colleger English
- collegewide English
- collegey English
- goer English
- intercollege English
- mate English
- noncollege English
- postcollege English
- precollege English
- subcollege English
- college Finnish
- collegepusero Finnish
- collegium Latin
- collēgium Latin
- college Dutch, Flemish
- collège French
- колледж Russian
- college Middle English
- collegial Middle English
- collegian Middle English
- collegiate Middle English
- college Old French
- koledž Serbo-Croatian
- कालिज Hindi
- kaleds Cebuano
- kolehiyo Cebuano
- collège Norman
- ကောလိပ် Burmese
- koledž Slovene
- কলেজ Bengali
- coláisde Middle Irish
- ਕਾਲਜ Panjabi, Punjabi