college
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English 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 (AU) (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
- (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
- (Ireland) A university.
- (attributively, chiefly US) Attendance at an institution of higher education.
- These should be his college years, but he joined the Army.
- (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
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Translations[edit]
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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.
- A secondary school, a high school, (now Belgium) especially in Roman Catholic education.
- An academic lecture, class.
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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) | |||
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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 collegeinrare | |
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 | |
instructive | — | collegein | |
abessive | collegetta | collegeitta | |
comitative | — | collegeineen |
Possessive forms of college (type nalle) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | collegeni | collegemme |
2nd person | collegesi | collegenne |
3rd person | collegensa |
Synonyms[edit]
- (sweatshirt): collegepusero
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French college, from Latin collēgium.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
college (plural collegis)
- A grouping of clergymen (usually relying on public funding).
- A grouping of teachers and students; a university or part of one.
- A grouping of colleagues; a team or organisation.
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Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “collē̆ǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-12.
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
college m (oblique plural colleges, nominative singular colleges, nominative plural college)
- institution; organization (an establishment of people with similar aims/goals)
Descendants[edit]
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Rhymes:English/ɒlɪdʒ
- Rhymes:English/ɒlɪdʒ/2 syllables
- English lemmas
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- English terms with obsolete senses
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- South African English
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- en:Buildings
- en:Universities
- en:Collectives
- Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch
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- Rhymes:Dutch/eːʒə
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- Belgian Dutch
- nl:Education
- Finnish terms borrowed from English
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- enm:Collectives
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