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collegiates

collegiates is the plural of collegiate.

Meaning of collegiate

Noun

collegiate (plural collegiates)

  1. (Canada) A high school.
  2. (obsolete) A member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education.
  3. (obsolete) 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...
  4. (slang) An inmate of a prison.

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Questions about collegiates

What is collegiates the plural of?
Collegiates is the plural of collegiate.

Words near collegiates in the dictionary

  1. collegiate churches
  2. Collegiate Gothic
  3. Collegiate Peaks
  4. collegiately
  5. collegiateness
  6. collegiates
  7. collegienne
  8. collegiennes
  9. collegium
  10. collegiums
  11. collegue

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