college
Middle English
/kɔlˈɛːdʒ(ə)/
noun
Definitions
- A grouping of clergy (usually relying on public funding).
- A grouping of teachers and students; a university or part of one.
- A grouping of colleagues; a team or organisation.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French college derived from Latin collegium.
Origin
Latin
collegium
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- anticollege English
- college English
- college-goer English
- collegebound English
- collegegoer English
- collegeless English
- collegelike English
- collegemate English
- colleger English
- collegewide English
- collegey English
- collegial English
- collegian English
- collegiate English
- intercollege English
- noncollege English
- postcollege English
- precollege English
- subcollege English
- college Finnish
- collegium Latin
- collēga Latin
- collēgium Latin
- collēgiānus Latin
- collēgiātus Latin
- kollégium Hungarian
- college Dutch, Flemish
- collège French
- колледж Russian
- kollegium Swedish
- kolegium Polish
- 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
- collégial Middle French
- koledž Slovene
- কলেজ Bengali
- coláisde Middle Irish
- ਕਾਲਜ Panjabi, Punjabi