College

[kol-ij] /ˈkɒl ɪdʒ/

noun
1.
an institution of higher learning, especially one providing a general or liberal arts education rather than technical or professional training.
Compare .
2.
a constituent unit of a university, furnishing courses of instruction in the liberal arts and sciences, usually leading to a bachelor’s degree.
3.
an institution for vocational, technical, or professional instruction, as in medicine, pharmacy, agriculture, or music, often a part of a university.
4.
an endowed, self-governing association of scholars incorporated within a university, as at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England.
5.
a similar corporation outside a university.
6.
the building or buildings occupied by an institution of higher education.
7.
the administrators, faculty, and students of a college.
8.
(in Britain and Canada) a private secondary school.
9.
an organized association of persons having certain powers and rights, and performing certain duties or engaged in a particular pursuit:
The electoral college formally selects the president.
10.
a company; assemblage.
11.
Also called collegium. a body of clergy living together on a foundation for religious service or similar activity.
12.
British Slang. a prison.
/ˈkɒlɪdʒ/
noun
1.
an institution of higher education; part of a university
2.
a school or an institution providing specialized courses or teaching: a college of music
3.
the building or buildings in which a college is housed
4.
the staff and students of a college
5.
an organized body of persons with specific rights and duties: an electoral college See also Sacred College
6.
a body of clerics living in community and supported by endowment
7.
(mainly Brit) an obsolete slang word for prison
n.

“body of scholars and students within a university,” late 14c., from Old French college “collegiate body” (14c.), from Latin collegium “community, society, guild,” literally “association of collegae” (see colleague). At first meaning any corporate group, the sense of “academic institution” attested from 1560s became the principal sense in 19c. via use at Oxford and Cambridge.

Related Terms

joe college

Heb. mishneh (2 Kings 22:14; 2 Chr. 34:22), rendered in Revised Version “second quarter”, the residence of the prophetess Huldah. The Authorized Version followed the Jewish commentators, who, following the Targum, gave the Hebrew word its post-Biblical sense, as if it meant a place of instruction. It properly means the “second,” and may therefore denote the lower city (Acra), which was built after the portion of the city on Mount Zion, and was enclosed by a second wall.