Definition of college

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College (n.) 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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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..
Found :: Found (v. i.) To take the ffirst steps or measures in erecting or building up; to furnish the materials for beginning; to begin to raise; to originate; as, to found a college; to found a family..
Demy :: Demy (n.) A half fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford..
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
Alumnus :: Alumnus (n.) A pupil; especially, a graduate of a college or other seminary of learning..
Floor :: Floor (v. t.) To finish or make an end of; as, to floor a college examination..
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..
Lodge :: Lodge (n.) The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college..
Sophomore :: Sophomore (n.) One belonging to the second of the four classes in an American college, or one next above a freshman..
Alumna :: Alumna (n. fem.) A female pupil; especially, a graduate of a school or college..
Doctor :: Doctor (n.) An academical title, originally meaning a men so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only..
Faculty :: Faculty (n.) The body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college..
Inn :: Inn (n.) One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers; as, the Inns of Court; the Inns of Chancery; Serjeants' Inns..
Intercollegiate :: Intercollegiate (a.) Existing or carried on between colleges or universities; as, intercollegiate relations, rivalry, games, etc..
Scholar :: Scholar (n.) In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues..
Semester :: Semester (n.) A period of six months; especially, a term in a college or uneversity which divides the year into two terms..
Faculty :: Faculty (n.) A body of a men to whom any specific right or privilege is granted; formerly, the graduates in any of the four departments of a university or college (Philosophy, Law, Medicine, or Theology), to whom was granted the right of teaching (profitendi or docendi) in the department in which they had studied; at present, the members of a profession itself; as, the medical faculty; the legal faculty, ect..
Dormitory :: Dormitory (n.) A sleeping room, or a building containing a series of sleeping rooms; a sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one connected with a college or boarding school..
Dean :: Dean (n.) The collegiate officer in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, who, besides other duties, has regard to the moral condition of the college..
Chum :: Chum (v. i.) To occupy a chamber with another; as, to chum together at college..
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