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intercollegiate

intercollegiate adjective: between colleges.

Adjective

intercollegiate (not comparable)

  1. Between colleges.
    • The substance of most of these chapters has been given in my college lectures, our present intercollegiate scheme of lecturing (now in operation for about twelve years) offering great facilities for the prosecution of any special studies which happen to suit the taste and capacity of some...1881, John Venn, Symbolic Logic, London: Macmillan & Co., Preface
    • A certain Phyllis Styles, an intercollegiate prom-trotter, had failed to get her yearly invitation to the Harvard-Princeton game.1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, Book One, Chapter 4

Noun

intercollegiate (plural intercollegiates)

  1. A competition between colleges.
    • We want to do better in the intercollegiates. We think we are strong enough for the dual meets, but we want to make a better show in the intercollegiates.1916, Wayland Wells Williams, The Whirligig of Time, page 117

intercollegiate meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Urdu

intercollegiate in Hindi

intercollegiate
अंतर्महाविद्यालय antarmahāvidyālay

intercollegiate in Tamil

பல்கல்லூரி

intercollegiate in Urdu

intercollegiate
بین الکلیات bainal-kulliyāt

Forms of intercollegiate

pluralintercollegiates

Origin of intercollegiate

From inter- + collegiate.

Words formed from intercollegiate

Questions about intercollegiate

What does intercollegiate mean?
Intercollegiate means between colleges.
What is intercollegiate in Hindi?
Intercollegiate in Hindi is अंतर्महाविद्यालय (antarmahāvidyālay). See Intercollegiate meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is intercollegiate?
Intercollegiate can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near intercollegiate in the dictionary

  1. intercoiling
  2. intercoilings
  3. intercoils
  4. intercollege
  5. intercollegial
  6. intercollegiate
  7. intercollegiately
  8. intercollegiates
  9. intercollegium
  10. intercollicular
  11. intercolline

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Adapted from Wiktionary: intercollegiate (page history and authors); अंतर्महाविद्यालय (Hindi) (page history and authors); intercollegiate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); بین الکلیات (Urdu) (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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