college
/ˈkɒl.ɪdʒ//ˈkɑ.lɪdʒ/
college noun: a specialized division of a university.
Noun
college (plural colleges)
- A specialized division of a university.
- College of Engineering
- Synonyms:
- department
- An institution of higher education teaching undergraduates.
- She's still in college
- These should be his college years, but he joined the Army.
- A university.
- A postsecondary institution that offers vocational training and/or associate's degrees.
- A non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university, with its own faculty, departments, library, etc.
- Pembroke College, Cambridge
- Balliol College, Oxford
- An institution of further education at an intermediate level; sixth form.
- An institution for adult education at a basic or intermediate level (teaching those of any age).
- A high school or secondary school.
- Eton College
- A private (non-government) primary or high school.
- A residential hall associated with a university, possibly having its own tutors.
- A government high school, short for junior college.
- A bilingual school.
- A group of people sharing common purposes or goals, especially ecclesiastics or professionals; a corporate group; a group of colleagues.
- Near-synonyms: society, association, academy
- College of Cardinals
- Synonyms:
- society, association, academy
- An electoral college.
Proper noun capitalized: College
College
- A census-designated place in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, United States.
- A township in Knox County, Ohio, United States, named for Kenyon College.
- A township in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States; it borders onto the municipality of State College, Pennsylvania.
college meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
college in Hindi
- academic institution
- महाविद्यालय mahāvidyālay
- non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university
- महाविद्यालय mahāvidyālay
- specialized division of a university
- संकाय saṅkāy
- institution of higher education
- महाविद्यालय mahāvidyālay
college in Tamil
- கல்லூரி
college in Urdu
- academic institution
- کلیہ kulliya, دانش کدہ dāniś kada
- non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university
- دانِش گاہ dāniś gāh
- institution of higher education
- کالِج kālij
- institution of higher education teaching undergraduates
- دانِش گاہ dāniś gāh
college in Bengali
- institution of further education at an intermediate level
- মহাবিদ্যালয় mohabiddaloẏ
More languagesFewer languages
- college in Telugu
- కళాశాల kaḷāśāla
- college in Malayalam
- കോളേജ് kōḷējŭ, കലാലയം kalālayaṁ
- college in Kannada
- ಮಹಾವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯ mahāvidyālaya, ವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯ vidyālaya
- college in Punjabi
- ਕਾਲਜ kālaj
- college in Gujarati
- કોલેજ kolej
- college in Odia
- କଲେଜ, ମହାବିଦ୍ଯ଼ାଳଯ଼, କଲେଜ୍
- college in Sanskrit
- आश्रम āśrama
- college in Assamese
- কলেজ kolez
- college in Nepali
- कलेज, महाविद्यालय
- college in Arabic
- كُلِّيَّة kulliyya, مَعْهَد maʕhad
- college in Malay
- maktab, kolej
- college in Indonesian
- kampus
- college in Persian
- دانشکده dâneškade
- college in Thai
- วิทยาลัย wít-tá-yaa-lai
- college in Vietnamese
- khoa, trường cao đẳng
- Sindhi
- ڪاليج kālej
Examples of college in a sentence
- All the courses here at the college.
- University College, London
- 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.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 232:
Synonyms of college
Forms of college
| plural | colleges |
|---|---|
| alternative form (obsolete) | colledg |
| alternative form (obsolete) | colledge |
Origin of college
From Middle English college, from Middle French college, from Old French college, from Latin collēgium. Doublet of collegium.
Words formed from college
- anticollege
- Benedict College
- Bene't College
- Buckingham College
- city technology college
- classical college
- clown college
- college-age
- college-aged
- collegebound
- collegeboy
- College City
- colleged
- College for Women
- college-goer
- collegegoer
- collegeless
- collegelike
- collegemate
- College of Cardinals
- College Park
- college pheasant
- College Point
- colleger
- college-ruled
- College Station
- college town
- college try
- college wage premium
- collegewide
- collegey
- cow college
- Dookie College
- Electoral College
- fresh-out-of-college
- give something the old college try
- 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
Phrases with college
- arts college
- college towns
- college tries
- State College
- junior college
- senior college
- tertiary college
- college pheasants
- community college
- old college tries
- technical college
- sixth-form college
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Words that rhyme with college
Questions about college
- What does college mean?
- College means a specialized division of a university.
- What is college in Hindi?
- College in Hindi is महाविद्यालय (mahāvidyālay), संकाय (saṅkāy), आवासीय शाला (āvāsīya śālā). See College meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use college in a sentence?
- All the courses here at the college.
- What part of speech is college?
- College can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce college?
- College is pronounced /ˈkɒl.ɪdʒ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of college?
- The plural of college is colleges.
Words near college in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: college (page history and authors); College (page history and authors); college (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); కళాశాల (Telugu) (page history and authors); ಮಹಾವಿದ್ಯಾಲಯ (Kannada) (page history and authors); ਕਾਲਜ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); કોલેજ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); college (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); आश्रम (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); কলেজ (Assamese) (page history and authors); college (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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