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colleged

colleged adjective: educated; having graduated from higher education.

Adjective

colleged (not comparable)

  1. (informal, rare) Educated; having graduated from higher education.
    • But that man who is colleged, is always talking about someplace away far-off, like Hindu-China.1953, Langston Hughes, Simple Stakes, Rinehart & Company
    • That practical problem outweighs the differences between the colleged and the true believers.1998, University of California, Agni, numbers 47-50

Origin of colleged

From college + -ed.

Questions about colleged

What does colleged mean?
Colleged means educated; having graduated from higher education.
What part of speech is colleged?
Colleged is an adjective.

Words near colleged in the dictionary

  1. college-goers
  2. college-ruled
  3. collegebound
  4. collegeboy
  5. collegeboys
  6. colleged
  7. collegegoer
  8. collegegoers
  9. collegeless
  10. collegelike
  11. collegemate

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