college
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: education
government
politics
Etymology: 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
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.
Inflected forms:
form: colleges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: colledg
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: colledge
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An academic institution.
pos: noun
examples: College of Engineering
gloss: An academic institution.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: She's still in college
These should be his college years, but he joined the Army.
All the courses here at the college.
gloss: An academic institution.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
Philippines
gloss: An academic institution.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
gloss: An academic institution.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: Pembroke College, Cambridge
Balliol College, Oxford
University College, London
gloss: An academic institution.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: An academic institution.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: An academic institution.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Ireland
New-Zealand
South-Africa
UK
examples: Eton College
gloss: An academic institution.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
gloss: An academic institution.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
gloss: An academic institution.
pos: noun
tags: Singapore
gloss: An academic institution.
pos: noun
gloss: A group of people sharing common purposes or goals, especially ecclesiastics or professionals; a corporate group; a group of colleagues.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: society, association, academy
College of Cardinals
College of Surgeons
Dissolution of Colleges Act 1545
Dissolution of Colleges Act 1547
The Salii were not limited to Rome; similar colleges of dancing priests are known to have existed in many towns of ancient Italy.
gloss: An electoral college.
pos: noun
Synonyms: faculty
school
Related words: collegiate
collegiate church
collegium
old college try
university
Derived words: anticollege
Benedict College
Bene't College
Buckingham College
city technology college
classical 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
noncollege
out-college
out-of-college
Parks College
Peterhouse College
postcollege
precollege
sixth form college
staff college
St Benet's College
subcollege
uncolleged
University College
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: كُلِّيَّة
roman: kulliyya
lang: Arabic
word: كلية
roman: kulliyya
lang: Bulgarian
word: коле́ж
roman: koléž
lang: Bulgarian
word: ви́сше учи́лище
roman: vísše učílište
lang: Catalan
word: col·legi
lang: Esperanto
word: universitato
lang: Finnish
word: akatemia
lang: Finnish
word: yliopisto
lang: Finnish
word: tiedekunta
lang: French
word: université
lang: German
word: Hochschule
lang: Greek
word: κολέγιο
roman: kolégio
lang: Greek
word: πανεπιστήμιο
roman: panepistímio
lang: Hindi
word: महाविद्यालय
roman: mahāvidyālay
lang: Indonesian
word: kampus
lang: Japanese
word: 大学
roman: daigaku
lang: Japanese
word: 大学校
roman: daigakkō
lang: Khmer
word: វិទ្យាល័យ
roman: vityiəlay
lang: Malayalam
word: കോളേജ്
roman: kōḷējŭ
lang: Malayalam
word: കലാലയം
roman: kalālayaṁ
lang: Persian
word: دانشکده
roman: dâneškade
lang: Russian
word: акаде́мия
roman: akadémija
lang: Russian
word: университе́т
roman: universitét
lang: Russian
word: вуз
roman: vuz
lang: Russian
word: вы́сшая шко́ла
roman: výsšaja škóla
lang: Spanish
word: universidad
lang: Swedish
word: högskola
lang: Thai
word: วิทยาลัย
roman: wít-tá-yaa-lai
lang: Urdu
word: کلیہ
roman: kulliya
lang: Urdu
word: دانش کدہ
roman: dāniś kada
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 大專 /大专
roman: dàzhuān
lang: Finnish
word: opisto
lang: Finnish
word: oppilaitos
lang: Spanish
word: escuela técnica
lang: Spanish
word: escuela de artes aplicadas
lang: Spanish
word: escuela de ciencias aplicadas
lang: Thai
word: วิทยาลัย
roman: wít-tá-yaa-lai
lang: Arabic
word: مَعْهَد
roman: maʕhad
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 學院 /学院
roman: xuéyuàn
lang: Finnish
word: korkeakoulu
lang: Greek
word: σχολή
roman: scholí
lang: Hebrew
word: מִכְלָלָה
roman: mikhlalá
lang: Hindi
word: महाविद्यालय
roman: mahāvidyālay
lang: Japanese
word: 学寮
roman: gakuryō
lang: Lithuanian
word: koledžas
lang: Macedonian
word: институ́т
roman: institút
lang: Norman
word: collège
lang: Iranian Persian
word: دانِشْکَدِه
roman: dâneškade
lang: Portuguese
word: setor
lang: Romanian
word: facultate
lang: Romanian
word: institut
lang: Russian
word: институ́т
roman: institút
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: инстѝтӯт
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: instìtūt
lang: Spanish
word: facultad
lang: Thai
word: วิทยาลัย
roman: wít-tá-yaa-lai
lang: Urdu
word: دانِش گاہ
roman: dāniś gāh
lang: Welsh
word: coleg