Definition of university

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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

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Matriculate :: Matriculate (v. t.) To enroll; to enter in a register; specifically, to enter or admit to membership in a body or society, particularly in a college or university, by enrolling the name in a register..
Chum :: Chum (n.) A roommate, especially in a college or university; an old and intimate friend..
Convocation :: Convocation (n.) An academical assembly, in which the business of the university is transacted..
Statute :: Statute (a.) An act of a corporation or of its founder, intended as a permanent rule or law; as, the statutes of a university..
Freshman :: Freshman (n.) novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his fist year in a college or university..
Hall :: Hall (n.) A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college)..
Compounder :: Compounder (n.) One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take.
Inceptor :: Inceptor (n.) One who is on the point of taking the degree of master of arts at an English university.
Gymnasium :: Gymnasium (n.) A school for the higher branches of literature and science; a preparatory school for the university; -- used esp. of German schools of this kind.
Sorbonist :: Sorbonist (n.) A doctor of the Sorbonne, or theological college, in the University of Paris, founded by Robert de Sorbon, a. d. 1252. It was suppressed in the Revolution of 1789..
Professor :: Professor (n.) One who professed, or publicly teaches, any science or branch of learning; especially, an officer in a university, college, or other seminary, whose business it is to read lectures, or instruct students, in a particular branch of learning; as a professor of theology, of botany, of mathematics, or of political economy..
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..
Tripos :: Tripos (n.) A university examination of questionists, for honors; also, a tripos paper; one who prepares a tripos paper..
Academic :: Academic (n.) A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician..
Curriculum :: Curriculum (n.) A course; particularly, a specified fixed course of study, as in a university..
Graduate :: Graduate (v. i.) To take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma.
Seminary :: Seminary (n.) A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university..
Undergraduate :: Undergraduate (n.) A member of a university or a college who has not taken his first degree; a student in any school who has not completed his course.
Probationer :: Probationer (n.) A student in divinity, who, having received certificates of good morals and qualifications from his university, is admitted to several trials by a presbytery, and, on acquitting himself well, is licensed to preach..
Wranglership :: Wranglership (n.) The honor or position of being a wrangler at the University of Cambridge, England..
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