COLLEGE


Meaning of COLLEGE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ kɒlɪdʒ ]

( colleges)

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.

1.

A college is an institution where students study after they have left school.

Their daughter Joanna is doing business studies at a local college...

He is now a professor of economics at Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts.

N-VAR ; N-IN-NAMES

2.

A college is one of the institutions which some British universities are divided into.

He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford.

N-COUNT : oft in names after n

3.

At some universities in the United States, colleges are divisions which offer degrees in particular subjects.

...a professor at the University of Florida College of Law.

N-COUNT ; N-IN-NAMES

4.

College is used in Britain in the names of some secondary schools which charge fees.

In 1854, Cheltenham Ladies’ College became the first girls’ public school.

N-IN-NAMES

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