Definition of university

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University (n.) An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having and acquiring property..

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Fellow :: Fellow (n.) In an American college or university, a member of the corporation which manages its business interests; also, a graduate appointed to a fellowship, who receives the income of the foundation..
University :: University (n.) The universe; the whole.
Cantabrigian :: Cantabrigian (n.) A native or resident of Cambridge; esp. a student or graduate of the university of Cambridge, England..
Student :: Student (n.) A person engaged in study; one who is devoted to learning; a learner; a pupil; a scholar; especially, one who attends a school, or who seeks knowledge from professional teachers or from books; as, the students of an academy, a college, or a university; a medical student; a hard student..
Compounder :: Compounder (n.) One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take.
Optime :: Optime (n.) One of those who stand in the second rank of honors, immediately after the wranglers, in the University of Cambridge, England. They are divided into senior and junior optimes..
Chum :: Chum (n.) A roommate, especially in a college or university; an old and intimate friend..
Tripos :: Tripos (n.) A university examination of questionists, for honors; also, a tripos paper; one who prepares a tripos paper..
Degree :: Degree (n.) Grade or rank to which scholars are admitted by a college or university, in recognition of their attainments; as, the degree of bachelor of arts, master, doctor, etc..
Convocation :: Convocation (n.) An academical assembly, in which the business of the university is transacted..
Oxford :: Oxford (a.) Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England..
Freshman :: Freshman (n.) novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his fist year in a college or university..
University :: University (n.) An institution organized and incorporated for the purpose of imparting instruction, examining students, and otherwise promoting education in the higher branches of literature, science, art, etc., empowered to confer degrees in the several arts and faculties, as in theology, law, medicine, music, etc. A university may exist without having any college connected with it, or it may consist of but one college, or it may comprise an assemblage of colleges established in any place, with
Graduate :: Graduate (n.) To admit or elevate to a certain grade or degree; esp., in a college or university, to admit, at the close of the course, to an honorable standing defined by a diploma; as, he was graduated at Yale College..
Graduate :: Graduate (v. i.) To take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma.
Lyceum :: Lyceum (n.) A higher school, in Europe, which prepares youths for the university..
Caput :: Caput (n.) The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856.
Nation :: Nation (n.) One of the divisions of university students in a classification according to nativity, formerly common in Europe..
Fellow-commoner :: Fellow-commoner (n.) A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table..
Honor :: Honor (n.) Academic or university prizes or distinctions; as, honors in classics..
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