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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Magnifico :: Magnifico (n.) A rector of a German university.
University :: University (n.) The universe; the whole.
Seminary :: Seminary (n.) A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university..
Fellow-commoner :: Fellow-commoner (n.) A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table..
Methodist :: Methodist (n.) One of a sect of Christians, the outgrowth of a small association called the Holy Club, formed at Oxford University, A.D. 1729, of which the most conspicuous members were John Wesley and his brother Charles; -- originally so called from the methodical strictness of members of the club in all religious duties..
Chum :: Chum (n.) A roommate, especially in a college or university; an old and intimate friend..
Lyceum :: Lyceum (n.) A higher school, in Europe, which prepares youths for the university..
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..
Commoner :: Commoner (n.) A student in the university of Oxford, Eng., who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; - - at Cambridge called a pensioner..
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..
Gown :: Gown (n.) The official robe of certain professional men and scholars, as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.; hence, the dress of peace; the dress of civil officers, in distinction from military..
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.
Academic :: Academic (n.) A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician..
Gownman :: Gownman (n.) One whose professional habit is a gown, as a divine or lawyer, and particularly a member of an English university; hence, a civilian, in distinction from a soldier..
Bursch :: Bursch (n.) A youth; especially, a student in a german university..
Caput :: Caput (n.) The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856.
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..
Oxonian :: Oxonian (n.) A student or graduate of Oxford University, in England..
Orator :: Orator (n.) An officer who is the voice of the university upon all public occasions, who writes, reads, and records all letters of a public nature, presents, with an appropriate address, those persons on whom honorary degrees are to be conferred, and performs other like duties; -- called also public orator..
Professoriate :: Professoriate (n.) The body of professors, or the professorial staff, in a university or college..
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