college
college is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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. 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.
- 2.A building, or number of buildings, used by a college. "The gate of Trinity College." Macaulay.
- 3.Fig.: A community. [R.] Thick as the college of the bees in May. Dryden. 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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abecedarian
- abecedary
- academic
- academy
- agent
- alma
- alphabetarian
- alumnus
- amateur
- ambo
- amphitheater
- and
- apostle
- apprentice
- art
- articled
- auditor
- auditorium
- beginner
- bewilder
- blind
- boarding
- book
- box
- catechumen
- cathedra
- chair
- chela
- class
- clerk
- collegiate
- conceal
- condisciple
- continuation
- convent
- creche
- cyclopedia
- day
- debutant
- deceive
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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