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Definitions and meaning of college
college
Alternative forms
colledg, colledge(obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle Englishcollege, from Middle Frenchcollege, from Old Frenchcollege, from Latincollēgium.
Pronunciation
(UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɒlɪd͡ʒ/
(US) IPA(key): /ˈkɑlɪd͡ʒ/
Rhymes: -ɒlɪdʒ
Noun
college (pluralcolleges)
(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. [From 1560s.]
A specialized division of a university.
(chiefly US) An institution of higher education teaching undergraduates.
(Ireland, Philippines) A university.
(Canada) A postsecondary institution that offers vocational training and/or associate's degrees.
(chiefly UK) 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, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa) A high school or secondary school.
(Australia) A private (non-government) 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.
Synonyms
(specialized division of a university) department, faculty, school
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
→ Bengali: কলেজ(kolej)
→ Finnish: college
→ Hindi: कालिज(kālij)
→ Russian: ко́лледж(kólledž), колле́дж(kollédž)
→ Serbo-Croatian: koledž
→ Slovene: koledž
Translations
See also
university
Anagrams
geocell
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutchcollege, from Middle Frenchcollege, from Latincollēgium.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˌkɔˈleː.ʒə/
Hyphenation: col‧le‧ge
Rhymes: -eːʒə
Noun
collegen (pluralcolleges, diminutivecollegetjen)
A collegial board, either advisory (committee) or as an authority.
A secondary school, a high school, (now Belgium) especially in Roman Catholic education.
An academic lecture, class.
Derived terms
collegejaar
collegezaal
gastcollege
Related terms
collega
Descendants
→ Indonesian: kolese
Finnish
Etymology
From Englishcollege. The "sweatshirt" sense is a pseudo-anglicism and is probably due to the prevalence of college related text on such sweatshirts.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈkolids(i)/, [ˈko̞lids̠(i)](especially in the sweatshirt sense)
IPA(key): /ˈkolidʒ(i)/, [ˈko̞lidʒ(i)]
Noun
college
sweatshirt (especially one with text referring to a certain college)
college(an institution of higher education)
Declension
This table shows the spoken declension with IPA symbols, which falls nicely into risti -class.
Written declension is more complicated due to the difficulty of combining "college" with risti-type endings. Therefore, it might be advisable to avoid inflecting this word in writing by using synonyms, when available. If one has to, one option is to write as if the pronunciation were Fennicize / Finnicized to /ˈko̞lːe̞ge̞/, in which case the word would fall into nalle-category with the exception that collegeiden seems to be more commonly used as genitive plural than collegejen and collegein is not used as genitive plural:
Synonyms
(sweatshirt):collegepusero
Derived terms
Further reading
“college”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Middle English
Alternative forms
colage, colege, colegg, colegie, collage
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Frenchcollege, from Old Frenchcollege, from Latincollēgium.