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college noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French college or its source Latin collegium association, partnership, guild, corporation, from collega COLLEAGUE noun.]
An organized body of people performing certain common functions and sharing special privileges. LME.
College of Arms, (colloq.) College of Heralds a corporation recording armorial bearings and lineages. College of Justice all those who participate in the administration of justice in the Court of Session in Scotland (Senator of the College of Justice: see SENATOR 3). ELECTORAL college. Heralds' College = College of Arms above. Sacred College the Pope's council of cardinals, which elects a new pope, usu. from amongst their number (Dean of the Sacred College: see DEAN noun1 6). College of Preceptors, College of Surgeons, etc.
An assemblage or company of individuals. LME-M18.
Dryden Thick as the college of the bees in May.
b. [Repr. German Collegium.] A reunion, a meeting of companions. E18.
A community of clergy living together on a foundation for religious service etc. Now chiefly Hist. LME.
College of the Propaganda: see PROPAGANDA noun 1.
a. An independent self-governing corporation of teachers and scholars, esp. one within or associated with a university; an American or (formerly) Scottish university, esp. a small US university that offers a limited curriculum or teaches only to the first degree. LME.
Eton College, Harvard College, New College, etc. college of education an institution for training schoolteachers. junior college: see JUNIOR adjective. senior college: see SENIOR adjective.
b. An institution for professional or vocational training or study, e.g. in music, agriculture, or theology; a higher educational institution for those who have left school, other than a university (sometimes also other than a polytechnic), usu. having a bias towards technical or vocational subjects; a school for pupils over the school-leaving age. Also, the name of some modern public schools and smaller private ones. M19.
Cheltenham Ladies' College, Lancing College, sixth-form college, tertiary college, etc. military college, technical college, etc.
a. The building or set of buildings occupied by a college (sense 4). LME.
b. Without article: some college, known or unknown; attendance at a college or university. M18.
be at college attend a college or university. go to college attend or begin attending a college or university.
Disraeli College had ruined me. New Society A young social worker, fresh out of college and with all the right letters after his name.
Hist. A hospital, almshouse, or similar charitable foundation. L17.
A prison, a reformatory. slang. L17.
A course of lectures at a foreign university. E18.
Comb.: college living a benefice in the gift of a college; college pudding a small plum pudding for one person.
colleger noun (a) a member of a college or (formerly) of the same college; spec. each of the 70 foundation scholars at Eton College; (b) slang a mortarboard: M16.