collegiate
/kəˈliːd͡ʒi.ət/
collegiate adjective: of, or relating to a college, or college students; collegial. Also the ellipsis of collegiate dictionary.
Adjective
collegiate (comparative more collegiate, superlative most collegiate)
- Of, or relating to a college, or college students; collegial.
- In De Tolla’s videos, he suggests Livvy has been deployed to charm Madden into committing to attending LSU when he is of age to play collegiate football.2023 June 8, Kalhan Rosenblatt, “Who is Baby Gronk? Did Livvy 'rizz' him up? What does any of this really mean?”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2023
- Of or relating to a collegium.
- To what happy man did this secluded nook belong? To Andrey Ivanovitch Tyentyetnikov, a landowner of the Tremalahansky district, a young unmarried man of thirty-three, by rank a collegiate secretary.1922 [1842], Constance Garnett, transl., Dead Souls, translation of Мёртвые души by Nikolai Gogol, Book Two, Chapter I
Noun
collegiate (plural collegiates)
- A high school.
- A member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education.
- A fellow-collegian; a colleague.
- those tables of artificial sines and tangents, not long since set out by mine old collegiate, good friend, and late fellow-student of Christ Church in Oxford, Mr. Edmund Gunter […].1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...
- An inmate of a prison.
Also used as
collegiate is also the ellipsis of collegiate dictionary.
collegiate meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
collegiate in Hindi
- कॉलेजिएट
collegiate in Urdu
- کالجیئیٹ, کالجیٹیوٹ
collegiate in Bengali
- কলেজিয়েট
collegiate in Telugu
- కాలేజియేట్
More languagesFewer languages
- collegiate in Kannada
- ಕಾಲೇಜಿಯೇಟ್
- collegiate in Punjabi
- ਕਾਲਜੀਏਟ, ਕਾਲਜਿਏਟ
- collegiate in Gujarati
- કોલેજિયેટ, કૉલેજિયેટ
- collegiate in Odia
- କଲେଜିଏଟ୍
- collegiate in Arabic
- جامعي, جامعية
Forms of collegiate
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more collegiate |
| superlative | most collegiate |
| Noun | |
| plural | collegiates |
Origin of collegiate
From Middle English collegiate, from Medieval Latin collēgiātus (“colleague”), from collēgium (“community, group”).
Words formed from collegiate
Phrases with collegiate
Questions about collegiate
- What does collegiate mean?
- Collegiate means of, or relating to a college, or college students; collegial.
- What is collegiate in Hindi?
- Collegiate in Hindi is कॉलेजिएट. See Collegiate meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is collegiate?
- Collegiate can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce collegiate?
- Collegiate is pronounced /kəˈliːd͡ʒi.ət/.
Words near collegiate in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: collegiate (page history and authors); collegiate (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); collegiate (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); collegiate (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); collegiate (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); collegiate (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); collegiate (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); collegiate (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); collegiate (Odia, 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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