college
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See also: collège
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French college, from Latin collegium.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɒlɪdʒ/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɑlɪdʒ/
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Audio (US) (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.
- (attributively, chiefly US) Attendance at an institution of higher education.
- These should be his college years, but he joined the Army.
- (Canada, Israel) A postsecondary institution that offers vocational training and/or associate's degrees.
- (chiefly Britain) 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
- (Britain) An institution of further education at an intermediate level; sixth form.
- (Britain) An institution for adult education at a basic or intermediate level (teaching those of any age).
- (Britain, 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.
- (in Chile) A bilingual school.
Synonyms[edit]
- (specialized division of a university) department, faculty, school
Hyponyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
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Translations[edit]
group of colleagues
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group sharing common purposes or goals
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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
non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university
specialized division of a university
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in the formal names of private schools: secondary school
institution of further education at an intermediate level
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high school or secondary school
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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]
Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
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Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
college c (plural colleges, diminutive collegetje n)
Finnish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
college
- college (learning institution)
- college sweatshirt
Declension[edit]
This table shows the spoken declension with IPA symbols, which falls nicely into risti -class.
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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 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 |
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| 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 | |
Synonyms[edit]
- (sweatshirt): collegepusero
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
college m (oblique plural colleges, nominative singular colleges, nominative plural college)
- institution; organization (establishment of people with similar aims/goals)
- college des Cardinaux
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- college des Cardinaux
Descendants[edit]
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