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Meaning of "college" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD COLLEGE

From Latin collēgium company, society, band of associates, from collēga.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF COLLEGE

college  [ˈkɒlɪdʒ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COLLEGE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
College is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COLLEGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

college

College

A college is an educational institution or a constituent part of one. Usage of the word college varies in English-speaking nations. A college may be a degree-awarding tertiary educational institution, a part of a collegiate university, or an institution offering vocational education. In the United States, "college" formally refers to a constituent part of a university, but generally "college" and "university" are used interchangeably, whereas in Ireland, the UK, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong and other former and present Commonwealth nations, "college" may refer to a secondary or high school, a college of further education, a training institution that awards trade qualifications, or a constituent part of a university.

Definition of college in the English dictionary

The first definition of college in the dictionary is an institution of higher education; part of a university. Other definition of college is a school or an institution providing specialized courses or teaching. College is also the building or buildings in which a college is housed.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COLLEGE


acknowledge
əkˈnɒlɪdʒ
assemblage
əˈsɛmblɪdʒ
cartilage
ˈkɑːtɪlɪdʒ
Coolidge
ˈkuːlɪdʒ
foreknowledge
fɔːˈnɒlɪdʒ
haulage
ˈhɔːlɪdʒ
knowledge
ˈnɒlɪdʒ
milage
ˈmaɪlɪdʒ
mileage
ˈmaɪlɪdʒ
noncollege
ˌnɒnˈkɒlɪdʒ
pillage
ˈpɪlɪdʒ
postcollege
ˌpəʊstˈkɒlɪdʒ
precollege
priːˈkɒlɪdʒ
privilege
ˈprɪvɪlɪdʒ
silage
ˈsaɪlɪdʒ
spillage
ˈspɪlɪdʒ
subcollege
ˈsʌbˌkɒlɪdʒ
tillage
ˈtɪlɪdʒ
village
ˈvɪlɪdʒ
volage
ˈvɒlɪdʒ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COLLEGE

colleen
college graduate
college of advanced technology
college of arms
College of Cardinals
college of education
college of further education
College of Justice
college professor
college pudding
college student
college-bound
colleger
collegia
collegial
collegialism
collegiality
collegially
collegian
collegianer

WORDS THAT END LIKE COLLEGE

agricultural college
allege
Bible college
business college
city college
commercial college
community college
electoral college
junior college
naval college
Open College
sixth-form college
special privilege
staff college
teacher training college
teachers´ college
teachers´ training college
technical college
the Open College
training college
village college

Synonyms and antonyms of college in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «college» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COLLEGE

Find out the translation of college to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of college from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «college» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

学院
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

universidad
570 millions of speakers

English

college
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कॉलेज
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

كُلِّيَّة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

колледж
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

colégio
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কলেজ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

faculté
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kolej
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

College
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

カレッジ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

대학
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

College
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trường cao đẳng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கல்லூரி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कॉलेज
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kolej
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

università
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

uczelnia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

коледж
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

colegiu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κολέγιο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Kollege
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

läroanstalt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

college
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of college

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COLLEGE»

The term «college» is very widely used and occupies the 1.189 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COLLEGE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «college» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «college» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about college

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10 QUOTES WITH «COLLEGE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word college.
1
Fred Allen
I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.
2
Jason Biggs
Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.
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Nicholas Brendon
I played baseball in college but I didn't identify with the jocks, I was in my own little world .
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Marshall Brickman
After college, rather than pursue real work, I joined a folk group and sang in coffee houses and nightclubs, an occupation that does little for the intellect and even less for the complexion.
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Nolan Bushnell
One of the big concerns I have is that most of the HR departments in a lot of companies are hiring away from creativity and they don't know it. For instance, they are requiring everybody to have a college degree. The most creative people I know couldn't deal with college.
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Hussein Chalayan
I was lucky I went to school in London because the tutors could see what to do. I knew I wanted to do something different. Why would I want to do what other people were already doing, because they would always do it better? I always wanted to work around the body. So throughout my college years, my work was quite free.
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Tabatha Coffey
We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
8
Leo Durocher
How you play the game is for college ball. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters.
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Dakota Fanning
I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common.
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Jamie Foxx
Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COLLEGE»

Discover the use of college in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to college and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be
In College, prominent cultural critic Andrew Delbanco offers a trenchant defense of such an education, and warns that it is becoming a privilege reserved for the relatively rich.
Andrew Delbanco, 2012
2
What the Best College Teachers Do
This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields and universities, offers valuable answers for all educators.
Ken Bain, 2011
3
Completing College: Rethinking Institutional Action
Now, with Completing College, Tinto offers administrators a coherent framework with which to develop and implement programs to promote completion.
Vincent Tinto, 2012
4
Taming the Electoral College
This book examines the history and weaknesses of the electoral college and proposes reforms that could be made to our electoral process without a constitutional amendment.
Robert William Bennett, 2006
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College Knowledge: What It Really Takes for Students to ...
Praise for College Knowledge Featuring an Updated Introduction for this paperback edition "This is not a book of platitudes and generalities.
David T. Conley, 2008
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Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses
Academically Adrift holds sobering lessons for students, faculty, administrators, policy makers, and parents—all of whom are implicated in promoting or at least ignoring contemporary campus culture.
Richard Arum, Josipa Roksa, 2011
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The American College and University: A History
In his foreword to this new edition, John Thelin assesses the impact that Rudolph's work has had on higher education studies.
Frederick Rudolph, 2011
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Conquering the College Admissions Essay in 10 Steps: ...
A much-needed supplement to other college entrance guides, this useful handbook will help students win over the admissions dean, while preparing them to write better papers once they've been accepted.
Alan Gelb, 2010
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College Essays that Made a Difference, 5th Edition
In this 5th edition of College Essays that Made a Difference, you’ll find: • 114 real essays written by 90 unique college hopefuls applying to Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, MIT, and other top schools—along with each ...
Princeton Review, 2013
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College Study Skills: Becoming a Strategic Learner
The text incorporates active learning strategies to help students succeed in college by introducing a strategy, allowing them to practice it, and having them do self-assessments to gain feedback on their own success.
Dianna Van Blerkom, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COLLEGE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term college is used in the context of the following news items.
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Martin O'Malley Calls For Debt-Free College Within 5 Years
Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley on Wednesday will lay out a plan providing debt-free access to a college degree for all ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
2
Best in College Sports: Ohio State, L'ville, UCLA lead 2014-15 …
Virginia catapulted itself to the top of the college baseball world, winning the national title one year after finishing as a runner-up to Vanderbilt. «CBSSports.com, Jul 15»
3
Lawmakers Ready Bill To Make Obama's Free Community College
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) will introduce legislation Wednesday to make community college ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
4
College for students living with disabilities
PAUL, Minn.-- When Rachel Larson was born 21 years ago, her mother LouAnn never dreamed she'd someday send off her little girl to college. «KARE, Jul 15»
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Study: More than a third of US college students transferred
BOSTON (AP) — More than a third of college students who started in 2008 transferred to another school, according to a new national study, ... «NorthJersey.com, Jul 15»
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Oregon Will Become Second State to Offer Free Community College
Mark Hass (D-Beaverton), is that a lot of needy students who might like to attend community college are currently failing to apply for federal ... «Willamette Week, Jul 15»
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York College adds to their faculty and staff
YORK — York College has added two to their faculty and staff team for the upcoming fall semester. Lindsey Eckert will join the faculty this fall as ... «York News-Times, Jul 15»
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In midst of lawsuit, Muscatine Community College students launch …
Muscatine Community College students and recent graduates are launching a new publication after they say administrators attempted to ... «The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines, Jul 15»
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Moravian College plans to build a Health Science Building
The college is asking Bethlehem City Council to rezone the block bordered by Main, Durham, Orchard and West Laurel streets from high ... «WFMZ Allentown, Jul 15»
10
'Yes means yes' is the law for sex on New York college campuses
He signed new legislation aimed at combating sexual assault on college campuses July 7. (The Associated Press | File photo, 2015). «Syracuse.com, Jul 15»

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