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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
College \Col"lege\, n. [F. coll[`e]ge, L. collegium, fr. collega
colleague. See {Colleague}.]
1. A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in
common pursuits, or having common duties and interests,
and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges;
as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college
of bishops.
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The college of the cardinals. --Shak.
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Then they made colleges of sufferers; persons who,
to secure their inheritance in the world to come,
did cut off all their portion in this. --Jer.
Taylor.
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2. A society of scholars or friends of learning, incorporated
for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of
knowledge; as, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge
Universities, and many American colleges.
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Note: In France and some other parts of continental Europe,
college is used to include schools occupied with
rudimentary studies, and receiving children as pupils.
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3. A building, or number of buildings, used by a college.
"The gate of Trinity College." --Macaulay.
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4. Fig.: A community. [R.]
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Thick as the college of the bees in May. --Dryden.
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{College of justice}, a term applied in Scotland to the
supreme civil courts and their principal officers.
{The sacred college}, the college or cardinals at Rome.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
college
n 1: the body of faculty and students of a college
2: an institution of higher education created to educate and
grant degrees; often a part of a university
3: a complex of buildings in which an institution of higher
education is housed
From Dutch-English Freedict dictionary [fd-nld-eng]:
college [kɔleʒə]
college
lecture
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