university
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /junɪˈvɜːsəti/
ipa: /junɪˈvɝsəti/
ipa: /junɪˈvɝsɪti/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈjunɪvə(r)sɪʈi/
note: Indic
ipa: /jʊ~uˈnɪvɜ(r)sɪʈi/
Forms: form: universities
Etymology: 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”).
Senses: examples: text: She's studying mathematics at university.
text: The only reason why I haven't gone to university is because I can't afford it.
text: During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]
ref: 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond:
text: Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
ref: 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
text: The most compelling stories of whether university is worth it are examples where a university education lifts the economic standing of a poor or disadvantaged student to a higher socioeconomic position.
ref: 2021, Harvey P. Weingarten, “Is Going to University Worth It?”, in Nothing Less than Great: Reforming Canada’s Universities, Toronto, Ont.; Buffalo, N.Y.; London: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 23:
text: The NIAID supports projects at universities and research organizations around the United States as well as a network of 21 NIAID labs across the country.
ref: 2023 August 2, Ben Tinker, Meg Tirrell and Brenda Goodman, “New director named at National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases after Fauci’s retirement”, in CNN:
glosses: Institution of higher education (typically accepting students from the age of about 17 or 18, depending on country, but in some exceptional cases able to take younger students) where subjects are studied and researched in depth and degrees are offered.
examples: text: [I]t appears a pity to banish the women and children. But to this can be opposed that holy act of your Majesty which expelled the Moriscos, and the children of the Moriscos, for the reason given in the royal edict. Whenever any detestable crime is committed by any university, it is well to punish all.
ref: 1841, George Borrow, The Zincali - Or, An Account of the Gypsies of Spain:
glosses: The entirety of a group; all members of a class.
Synonyms: academy
college
institute
uni
varsity
Hypernyms: institution
school
Hyponyms: merit badge university
penny university
plate-glass university
professional university
redbrick university
red brick university
technical university
technological university
university of applied sciences
university of technology
Derived terms: word: corporate university
word: free university
word: nigger university
word: univershitty
word: university college
word: university extension
word: university of life
word: university of the streets
word: university professor
word: university student
word: university town
word: varsity
Related terms: word: universal
word: universe
urls: http://textbook.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity
word: Wikiversity