college
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-der.? Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-der.? Proto-Italic *lēks Latin lēx Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin lēgō Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂ Proto-Italic *-ā Latin -a Latin collēga Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ium Latin collēgiumbor. Old French college Middle French collegebor. Middle English college English college From Middle English college, from Middle French college, from Old French college, from Latin collēgium. Doublet of collegium.
Definitions
An academic institution.
- College of Engineering
A group of people sharing common purposes or goals, especially ecclesiastics or…
A group of people sharing common purposes or goals, especially ecclesiastics or professionals; a corporate group; a group of colleagues.
- Near-synonyms: society, association, academy
- College of Cardinals
- College of Surgeons
An electoral college.
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A census-designated place in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, United States.
A township in Knox County, Ohio, United States, named for Kenyon College.
A township in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States
A township in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States; it borders onto the municipality of State College, Pennsylvania.
The neighborhood
- synonymfaculty
- synonymschool
- neighborcollegiate
- neighborcollegiate church
- neighborcollegium
- neighborold college try
- neighboruniversity
- neighborarts college
- neighborcommunity college
- neighborelectoral college
- neighborjunior college
- neighborresidential college
- neighborsenior college
- neighbortechnical college
Derived
anticollege, Benedict College, Bene't College, Buckingham College, city technology college, college-age, college-aged, collegebound, collegeboy, College City, College for Women, college-goer, collegegoer, collegeless, collegelike, collegemate, College of Cardinals, College Park, college pheasant, colleger, college-ruled, College Station, college town, college try, college wage premium, collegewide, collegey, cow college, Dookie College, Electoral College, fresh-out-of-college, Gloucester College, Hertford College, Iffley College, intercollege, Joe College, King's College, merit badge college, middle college, multicollege · +13 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at college. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at college. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at college
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA