College

Word COLLEGE
Character 7
Hyphenation col lege
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "College"

What do we mean by college?

An institution of higher learning that grants the bachelor's degree in liberal arts or science or both. noun

An undergraduate division or school of a university offering courses and granting degrees in a particular field or group of fields. noun

A junior or community college. noun

A school offering special instruction in a professional or technical subject. noun

The students, faculty, and administration of one of these schools or institutions. noun

The building, buildings, or grounds where one of these schools or institutions is located. noun

A self-governing society of scholars for study or instruction, incorporated within a university. noun

An institution for secondary education in France and certain other countries that is not supported by the state. noun

A body of persons having a common purpose or shared duties. noun

An electoral college. noun

A body of clerics living together on an endowment. noun

An organized association of men, invested with certain common powers and rights, performing certain related duties, or engaged in some common employment or pursuit; a body of colleagues; a guild; a corporation; a community: as, an ancient Roman college of priests; the college of cardinals; the Heralds' College in England; a college of physicians or surgeons. noun

An endowed and incorporated community or association of students within a university. See university. noun

The institution or house founded for the accommodation of such an association. noun

In Scotland, the United States, and Canada, an incorporated and endowed institution of learning of the highest grade. noun

A school or an academy of a high grade or of high pretensions. noun

An edifice occupied by a college. noun

In France, an institution for secondary education, controlled by the municipality, which pays for the instruction given there, and differing from the lyceum in that the latter is supported and directed by the state. The curriculum is nearly the same in both, the college being usually modeled on the lyceum. noun

A corporate group; a group of colleagues.

(in some proper nouns) A group sharing common purposes or goals.

An electoral college.

An academic institution.

A specialized division of a university.

An institution of higher education teaching undergraduates.

A university.

Attendance at an institution of higher education.

A postsecondary institution that offers vocational training and/or associate's degrees.

A non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university, with its own faculty, departments, library, etc.

An institution of further education at an intermediate level; sixth form.

An institution for adult education at a basic or intermediate level (teaching those of any age).

A high school or secondary school.

A private (non-government) primary or high school.

A residential hall associated with a university, possibly having its own tutors.

A government high school, short for junior college.

(in Chile) A bilingual school.

1. Just like high school, but harder, and more expensive. 4 (or more) years of wasting your parents money and learning shit that you wont remember once you start working. 2. Hell Urban Dictionary

A forty thousand dollar bar tab Urban Dictionary

A magical place where it is rumored that learning takes place, although to those who enter it is often described differently afterward, as a beatiful land in which beer flows in amber currents next to a golden pasture, where virgins lie naked with gentle smiles upon their calm, inviting faces; but more precisely, a Shangri-La rite of passage into adulthood which involves rampant consumption of alcoholic beverages, flagrant and promiscuous sexual behavior, and a general and fundamental disregard for any form of responsibility by its habitants. Urban Dictionary

The place where you enter inexorbitant amounts of debt to "learn" things you will never apply once to your actual occupation. Basically, an expensive 4-year waiting period for a paper called "degree". Urban Dictionary

Where dreamers can go to secure a plan B for their future employment prospects Urban Dictionary

An alternative to buying a Ferrari (they cost about the same). Urban Dictionary

A $20,000 cover charge for 18-21 year olds Urban Dictionary

1. High school redirected in a very expensive facility, concentrated with thousands of other crazy drunks, potheads, nerds, and hopeful virgins. It's the center where young adults feel free to do as they wish considering booze, drugs and sex are beknowngst parents, and only until holiday vacations are when their precious sons and daughters come home clean and sober (most of the time). It's the namesake of a heavily financial burden and longterm debt paid by the attendee soon after they (hopefully) graduate. 2. The Real World meets Animal House. Urban Dictionary

An expensive daycare center Urban Dictionary

Supposedly the best years of your life. More accurately, a hellhole that knows no mercy and loves to beat you down and make you feel worthless. (See UC Berkeley) Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for College

The word "college" in example sentences

Wasn't it enough that I and my family lived on her, that I must come to her on purpose to rile her with my talk about college -- _college! ❋ Mary Antin (1915)

I have a notion -- only do not whisper such heresy within college walls -- that a college tutor must be genteel in his _college judgments_, that 'The Polite Letter ❋ Stephen Lucius Gwynn (1907)

The term "college student" comes with its own luxuries, including enjoying weekend parties, procrastinating papers until an hour before deadline no such thing at a real job! ❋ Uloop (2011)

For instance, according to Google Insights for Search, the term "college football" is searched for about 5 times as often in Birmingham, Alabama as it is in New York City, relative to overall search traffic. ❋ By NATE SILVER (2011)

However, very little of a person's success in college is dependent on reading speed if the individual is willing to spend time covering the material at a slower pace. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So much of time in college is extrinsic to learning. ❋ Mia (2009)

It's precisely because some people are still making the baseless and irresponsible argument that an investment in college is somehow a bad one that we point to even more research that shows education and a college degree provides more than just economic benefits. ❋ Gaston Caperton (2010)

I am in college and I can tell you going to college is not what makes you smart. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My memory of reading philosophy in college is that striving to articulate the best possible form of the argument one intends to analyze — whether for the purpose of refutation or just for understanding — was considered a basic principle of sound scholarship. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Thomas said his approach to returning kicks, which he did in college, is simple. ❋ Barry Svrluga (2010)

Twilight of Avalon was my seventh book, and to say that my voice had changed from that first effort back in college is a huge, huge understatement. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Part of what you're supposed to do in college is question conventional wisdom. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The quantity of seats available in college is relatively fixed (over the short-term, anyway). ❋ Unknown (2010)

I bought my first bird dog [english setter] 35-years ago while in college from a very gracious breeder who took monthly payments. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Everything I learned in college is worthless with this kind of goverment logic. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[Your mom goes to college].. ❋ Meno (2005)

[i cant] [wait] to go to [cheers] ❋ Patrick (2005)

Thank you [sir], [may I] [have another]? ❋ Phlagellum (2003)

I will owe [Wells Fargo] my [first born] so I can [pay off] my college. ❋ Drenam (2003)

Jenny always wanted to be a [singer-songwriter], but her parents persuaded her to choose English as a [college major], for [a fallback] plan. She later married a 1950s-style brute who orders her to edit all of his work-related documents and to have dinner on the table by five every night. Life can be so tragic sometimes. ❋ D.S. Credito (2015)

[Damn], that [Ferrari] costs [almost] as much as college. ❋ Duesey (2003)

[I was drunk] my [first] [semester] at college. ❋ Wjs (2003)

Girl: College is going to be awesome! I can't wait to meet all the guys! Nerd: I will graduate with a B.S. in Physics. Boy: I'm a [Sigma Chi]. Professor: I hate these little bastards. Parent: It's as if they're [suckling] on my [retirement] funds. ❋ Ronique S. (2006)

I'll be retirin' soon, and the kids is [gettin'] [too old] for no one to notice if I kill ['em]... ❋ Retarded Student (2003)

College is supposed to [be the best] years of my life. I now want to [kill myself] if [these are] the "best" years. ❋ The Last Great American Liberal (2003)

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