adj
Meaning 1
Of, or relating to a college, or college students.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
collegiate
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adj
Meaning 2
Collegial.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Meaning 3
Of or relating to a collegium.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Qualifier: Russian Empire
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noun
Meaning 4
A high school.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada
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noun
Meaning 5
A member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 6
A fellow-collegian; a colleague.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 7
An inmate of a prison.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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noun
Meaning 8
Ellipsis of collegiate dictionary.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Topics: human-sciences, lexicography, linguistics, sciences
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adjective
Meaning 9
of or resembling or typical of a college or college students
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- collegiate living
- collegiate attitudes
- collegiate clothes
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: collegial
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English collegiate, from Medieval Latin collēgiātus (“colleague”), from collēgium (“community, group”).
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: جامعي — of, or relating to a college, or college students
- Arabic: جامعية — of, or relating to a college, or college students
- Bulgarian: университетски (universitetski) — of, or relating to a college, or college students
- Bulgarian: академичен (akademičen) — of, or relating to a college, or college students
- Catalan: col·legiat — of, or relating to a college, or college students
- Ido: kolegiala — of, or relating to a college, or college students
- Ido: kolegia — of, or relating to a college, or college students
- Irish: coláisteach — of, or relating to a college, or college students
- Manx: colaashtagh — of, or relating to a college, or college students
- Portuguese: universitário — of, or relating to a college, or college students
- Portuguese: universitária — of, or relating to a college, or college students
- Portuguese: acadêmico — of, or relating to a college, or college students
- Portuguese: acadêmica — of, or relating to a college, or college students
- Spanish: colegiado — of, or relating to a college, or college students
- Welsh: colegaidd — of, or relating to a college, or college students
- Polish: kolegialny — of, or relating to a collegium
- Russian: колле́жский (kolléžskij) — of, or relating to a collegium
- Ukrainian: коле́зький (kolézʹkyj) — of, or relating to a collegium
- Ido: kolegiano — member of a college
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