university
nounEtymology
From Middle English universite (“institution of higher learning, body of persons constituting a university”) from Anglo-Norman université, from Old French universitei, from Medieval Latin stem of universitas, in juridical and Late Latin "a number of persons associated into one body, a society, company, community, guild, corporation, etc"; in Latin, "the whole, aggregate," from universus (“whole, entire”). By surface analysis, universe + -ity.
- derived from universitei
- derived from université
- inherited from universite
Definitions
An institution of higher education that provides facilities for teaching, research, and…
An institution of higher education that provides facilities for teaching, research, and the conferral of academic degrees across undergraduate, graduate, and often professional levels.
- She's studying mathematics at university.
- The only reason why I haven't gone to university is because I can't afford it.
The entirety of a group
The entirety of a group; all members of a class.
The neighborhood
- synonymacademy
- synonymcollege
- synonyminstitute
- synonymuni
- synonymvarsity
- neighboruniversal
- neighboruniverse
- neighborgraduate school
- neighborundergraduate
- neighboruniversity student
- neighborinstitution
- neighborschool
- neighbormerit badge university
- neighborpenny university
- neighborplate-glass university
- neighborprofessional university
- neighborredbrick university
Derived
corporate university, free university, Jewniversity, nigger university, univershitty, university belt, University City, university college, university extension, university of life, university of the streets, university professor, university student, university town, varsity, vocational university
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at university. 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 university. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at university
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