university
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
university/juːnɪˈvɜːsəti/
▶noun (pl. universities) a high-level educational institution in which students study for degrees and academic research is done.
– origin ME: from OFr. universite, from L. universitas ‘the whole’, in late L. ‘guild’, from universus (see universe).
'university' also found in these Oxford entries:
academic
- academical
- alma mater
- alumnus
- AUT
- baccalaureate
- bachelor
- battels
- berkelium
- blue
- burgess
- californium
- Cambridge blue
- campus
- Cantab.
- Cantabrigian
- cap
- chancellor
- charter
- class
- collection
- collegiate
- convocation
- crony
- cum laude
- dean
- degree
- dissertation
- doctor
- doctorate
- don
- double first
- down
- endow
- -er
- exhibition
- extension
- external
- extramural
- faculty
- first class
- fraternity
- fresher
- freshman
- full professor
- gap year
- go
- gown
- graduate school
- gymnasium
