Pronunciation Noun
college (plural colleges)
- (obsolete) A corporate group; a group of colleagues.
- (in some proper nouns) A group sharing common purposes or goals.
- College of Cardinals, College of Surgeons
- (politics) An electoral college.
- An academic institution. [From 1560s.]
- A specialized division of a university.
- College of Engineering
- (chiefly, US) An institution of higher education teaching undergraduates.
- (attributively, chiefly, US) Attendance at an institution of higher education.
- These should be his college years, but he joined the Army.
- (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.
- Pembroke College, Cambridge; Balliol College, Oxford; University College, London
- (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.
- Eton College
- (Australia) A private (non-government) primary or high school.
- (Australia) A residential hall associated with a university, possibly having its own tutors.
- (in Chile) A bilingual school.
- (specialized division of a university) department, faculty, school
- old college try
- collegiate
- collegium
- French: collège
- Russian: корпора́ция
- French: université
- Russian: акаде́мия
- Spanish: universidad
- French: université, fac
- German: Fachhochschule
- Portuguese: IES, instituição de ensino superior
- Russian: вуз
- Spanish: escuela universitaria
- Portuguese: faculdade
- Russian: вуз
- Spanish: escuela universitaria
- Russian: ко́лледж
- Spanish: escuela técnica, escuela de artes aplicadas, escuela de ciencias aplicadas
- Portuguese: colégio
- Russian: те́хникум
- German: Berufsfachschule, Berufskolleg
- Portuguese: faculdade
- Russian: те́хникум
- Spanish: colegio
- German: Berufskolleg, Fachschule
- Portuguese: faculdade
- Russian: ПТУ
- Russian: общежи́тие
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