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colledge

colledge is the obsolete form of college.

Meaning of college

Noun

college (plural colleges)

  1. A specialized division of a university.
    • College of Engineering
    Synonyms:
    department
  2. (US) An institution of higher education teaching undergraduates.
    • She's still in college
  3. (Ireland, Philippines) A university.
  4. (Canada) A postsecondary institution that offers vocational training and/or associate's degrees.
  5. (UK) A non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university, with its own faculty, departments, library, etc.
    • Pembroke College, Cambridge
  6. (UK) An institution of further education at an intermediate level; sixth form.

See all 17 meanings of college

Proper noun capitalized: Colledge

Colledge (plural Colledges)

  1. A surname.

Forms of colledge

Noun
pluralcolledges
Proper noun
pluralColledges

Origin of colledge

Variant of Collidge.

Questions about colledge

What does colledge mean?
Colledge means a surname.
What is colledge the obsolete form of?
Colledge is the obsolete form of college.
What part of speech is colledge?
Colledge is a proper noun.

Words near colledge in the dictionary

  1. collects oneself
  2. collects skin
  3. collects up
  4. colled
  5. colledg
  6. colledge
  7. colledges
  8. colleen
  9. colleens
  10. college
  11. College City

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colledge (page history and authors); Colledge (page history and authors); college (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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