college
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
college/ˈkɒlɪʤ/
▶noun
- 1 an educational establishment providing higher education or specialized professional or vocational training.
■ (in Britain) any of the independent institutions into which some universities are separated.
- 2 an organized group of professional people with particular aims, duties, and privileges.
'college' also found in these Oxford entries:
academic
- academical
- alma mater
- alumnus
- antechapel
- battels
- beadle
- bursar
- buttery
- campus
- CFE
- chapter house
- City Technology College
- class
- cloister
- collection
- College of Arms
- college of education
- collegian
- collegiate
- commons
- community college
- congregation
- conservatoire
- crammer
- CTC
- curriculum
- dean
- degree
- don
- donnish
- dormitory
- Earl Marshal
- elector
- electoral college
- enrolment
- Etonian
- Eton jacket
- exeat
- extension
- extra-curricular
- faculty
- fellow
- fellowship
- finishing school
- flunk
- fraternity
- fresher
- gap year
