college
(noun) a complex of buildings in which an institution of higher education is housed
college
(noun) the body of faculty and students of a college
college
(noun) an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university
Source: WordNet® 3.1
college (plural colleges)
(obsolete) A corporate group; a group of colleagues.
(in some proper nouns) A group sharing common purposes or goals.
(politics) An electoral college.
An academic institution. [From 1560s.]
A specialized division of a university.
(chiefly, US) An institution of higher education teaching undergraduates.
(attributively, chiefly, US) Attendance at an institution of higher education.
(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.
(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.
(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
• community college
• electoral college
• junior college
• geocell
Source: Wiktionary
Col"lege, n. Etym: [F. collège, L. collegium, fr. collega colleague. See Colleague.]
1. A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops. The college of the cardinals. Shak. Then they made colleges of sufferers; persons who, to secure their inheritance in the world to come, did cut off all their portion in this. Jer. Taylor.
2. A society of scholars or friends of learning, incorporated for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of knowledge; as, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and many American colleges.
Note: In France and some other parts of continental Europe, college is used to include schools occupied with rudimentary studies, and receiving children as pupils.
3. A building, or number of buildings, used by a college. "The gate of Trinity College." Macaulay.
4. Fig.: A community. [R.] Thick as the college of the bees in May. Dryden. College of justice, a term applied in Scotland to the supreme civil courts and their principal officers.
– The sacred college, the college or cardinals at Rome.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
15 March 2025
(noun) the replacement of an edge or solid angle (as in cutting a gemstone) by a plane (especially by a plane that is equally inclined to the adjacent faces)
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
