college
pronunciation
How to pronounce college in British English:
UK [ˈkɒlɪdʒ]
How to pronounce college in American English:
US [ˈkɑːlɪdʒ]
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- Noun:
- the body of faculty and students of a college
- an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university
- British slang for prison
- a complex of buildings in which a college is housed
Word Origin
- college
- college: [14] College comes from the same source as colleague. Latin collēga, literally ‘one chosen to work with another’, a compound based on the stem of lēgāre ‘choose’. An ‘association of collēgae, partnership’ was thus a collēgium, whence (possibly via Old French college) English college. For many hundreds of years this concept of a ‘corporate group’ was the main semantic feature of the word, and it was not really until the 19th century that, via the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge universities, the notion of ‘academic institution’ overtook it.=> colleague, delegate, legal, legitimate
- college (n.)
- "body of scholars and students within a university," late 14c., from Old French college "collegiate body" (14c.), from Latin collegium "community, society, guild," literally "association of collegae" (see colleague). At first meaning any corporate group, the sense of "academic institution" attested from 1560s became the principal sense in 19c. via use at Oxford and Cambridge.
Synonym
Example
- 1. What were your grades in college ?
- 2. Imperial college 's own map is here .
- 3. It may be the world 's largest medical college .
- 4. We graduate college more often .
- 5. Few greenlanders graduate from college .