Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
COLLEGE
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
Etymology
Noun
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.
Synonyms
• (specialized division of a university) department, faculty, school
Hyponyms
• community college
• electoral college
• junior college
Anagrams
• 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
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