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English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
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From Middle English college, from Middle French college, from Old French college, from Latin collēgium.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɒlɪd͡ʒ/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɑlɪd͡ʒ/
Audio (UK): (file) Audio (US): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒlɪdʒ
Noun
[edit]college (plural colleges)
- (obsolete) A corporate group; a group of colleagues.
- (in some proper nouns) A group sharing common purposes or goals.
- College of Cardinals, College of Surgeons
- 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 232:
- The Salii were not limited to Rome; similar colleges of dancing priests are known to have existed in many towns of ancient Italy.
- (politics) An electoral college.
- An academic institution. [From 1560s.]
- A specialized division of a university.
- College of Engineering
- (chiefly US) An institution of higher education teaching undergraduates.
- She's still in college
- These should be his college years, but he joined the Army.
- (Ireland, Philippines) A university.
- (Canada) A postsecondary institution that offers vocational training and/or associate's degrees.
- (chiefly UK) A non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university, with its own faculty, departments, library, etc.
- Pembroke College, Cambridge
- Balliol College, Oxford
- University College, London
- (UK) An institution of further education at an intermediate level; sixth form.
- (UK) An institution for adult education at a basic or intermediate level (teaching those of any age).
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa) A high school or secondary school.
- Eton College
- (Australia) A private (non-government) primary or high school.
- (Australia) A residential hall associated with a university, possibly having its own tutors.
- (Singapore) A government high school, short for junior college.
- (in Chile) A bilingual school.
- A specialized division of a university.
Synonyms
[edit]- (specialized division of a university) department, faculty, school
Hyponyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- Benedict College
- Bene't College
- Buckingham College
- city technology college
- college-aged
- College City
- College for Women
- college-goer
- college pheasant
- college-ruled
- College Station
- college town
- college try
- college wage premium
- cow college
- Electoral College
- fresh-out-of-college
- Gloucester College
- Hertford College
- Iffley College
- Joe College
- King's College
- merit badge college
- middle college
- out-college
- out-of-college
- Parks College
- Peterhouse College
- sixth-form college
- staff college
- St Benet's College
- University College
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- ⇒ Bengali: কলেজ (kolej)
- → Finnish: college
- ⇒ Hindustani:
- → Russian: ко́лледж (kólledž), колле́дж (kollédž)
- → Serbo-Croatian: koledž
- → Slovene: koledž
Translations
[edit]group of colleagues
group sharing common purposes or goals
politics: electoral college — see electoral college
academic institution
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institution of higher education
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institution of higher education teaching undergraduates
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attendance at an institution of higher education
postsecondary institution that does not award bachelor's degrees
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non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university
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specialized division of a university
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in the formal names of private schools: secondary school
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institution of further education at an intermediate level
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institution for adult education at a basic or intermediate level
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residential hall of a university
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See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Dutch college, from Middle French college, from Latin collēgium.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]college n (plural colleges, diminutive collegetje n)
- A collegial board, either advisory (committee) or as an authority.
- Het college van burgemeester en wethouders neemt belangrijke beslissingen voor de gemeente.
- The collegial board of mayor and aldermen makes important decisions for the municipality.
- Het college van advies bestaat uit deskundigen op het gebied van duurzaamheid.
- The advisory committee consists of experts in the field of sustainability.
- A secondary school, a high school, (now Belgium) especially in Roman Catholic education.
- Na de basisschool ging hij naar het college om verder te studeren.
- After elementary school, he went to the high school to continue his studies.
- In Vlaanderen wordt een middelbare school vaak een college genoemd.
- In Flanders, a high school is often called a college.
- An academic lecture, class.
- Het college begint om 9 uur en duurt twee uur.
- The lecture starts at 9 o'clock and lasts two hours.
- De docent gaf een boeiend college over de geschiedenis van de kunst.
- The lecturer gave an engaging lecture on the history of art.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Indonesian: kolese
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English college. The "sweatshirt" sense is a pseudo-anglicism and is probably due to the prevalence of college related text on such sweatshirts.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈkolids(i)/, [ˈko̞lids̠(i)] (especially in the sweatshirt sense)
- IPA(key): /ˈkolidʒ(i)/, [ˈko̞lidʒ(i)]
Noun
[edit]college
- sweatshirt (especially one with text referring to a certain college)
- college (an institution of higher education)
Declension
[edit]This table shows the spoken declension with IPA symbols, which falls nicely into risti -class.
Declension of college (irregular)
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Written declension is more complicated due to the difficulty of combining "college" with risti-type endings. Therefore, it might be advisable to avoid inflecting this word in writing by using synonyms, when available. If one has to, one option is to write as if the pronunciation were Fennicize / Finnicized to /ˈko̞lːe̞ge̞/, in which case the word would fall into nalle-category with the exception that collegeiden seems to be more commonly used as genitive plural than collegejen and collegein is not used as genitive plural:
| Inflection of college (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | college | colleget | ||
| genitive | collegen | collegejen | ||
| partitive | collegea | collegeja | ||
| illative | collegeen | collegeihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | college | colleget | ||
| accusative | nom. | college | colleget | |
| gen. | collegen | |||
| genitive | collegen | collegejen collegein rare | ||
| partitive | collegea | collegeja | ||
| inessive | collegessa | collegeissa | ||
| elative | collegesta | collegeista | ||
| illative | collegeen | collegeihin | ||
| adessive | collegella | collegeilla | ||
| ablative | collegelta | collegeilta | ||
| allative | collegelle | collegeille | ||
| essive | collegena | collegeina | ||
| translative | collegeksi | collegeiksi | ||
| abessive | collegetta | collegeitta | ||
| instructive | — | collegein | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
Synonyms
[edit]- (sweatshirt): collegepusero
Derived terms
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Further reading
[edit]- “college”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle French college, from Old French college, from Latin collēgium.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]college (plural collegis)
- A group of clergymen (usually dependent on public funds).
- A group of teachers and students; a university or part of one.
- A group of colleagues; a team or organisation.
Related terms
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[edit]References
[edit]- “collē̆ǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-12.
Middle French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French college, from Latin collēgium.
Noun
[edit]college m (plural colleges)
- An institution or organization (an organised establishment of people):
- A monastery or convent; a monastic institution.
- A college (semi-autonomous university institution)
Descendants
[edit]- French: collège
- → Turkish: kolej
- → Middle English: college, colage, colege, colegg, colegie, collage
- → Dutch: college
- → Indonesian: kolese
Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin collēgium.
Noun
[edit]college oblique singular, m (oblique plural colleges, nominative singular colleges, nominative plural college)
- institution; organization (an organised establishment of people)
- college des Cardinaux ― College of Cardinals
Descendants
[edit]- Middle French: college, colege, collège, colliege
- Norman: collège
- → Middle Irish: coláisde
- Irish: coláiste
References
[edit]- “COLLEGE m.”, in DEAF: Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français, Heidelberg: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1968-.
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “collegium”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 896
Polish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English college. Doublet of kolegium.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]college m inan
- (education) college (specialized division of a university)
- (education) college (institution of higher education teaching undergraduates)
Declension
[edit]Declension of college
| singular | plural | |
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| nominative | college | college'e |
| genitive | college'u | college'ów |
| dative | college'owi | college'om |
| accusative | college | college'e |
| instrumental | college'em | college'ami |
| locative | college'u | college'ach |
| vocative | college'u | college'e |
Further reading
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