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noun
An institution of higher education that provides facilities for teaching, research, and the conferral of academic degrees across undergraduate, graduate, and often professional levels.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The entirety of a group; all members of a class.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: establishment
Narrower terms: city university, Oxbridge, redbrick university, Brown University, Brown, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University, Columbia, Cooper Union, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Cornell University, Duke University, Harvard University, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, Ohio State University, Oxford University, Oxford, Paris University, University of Paris, Sorbonne, Princeton University, Princeton, Stanford University, Stanford, University of California at Berkeley, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Nebraska, University of North Carolina, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Penn, University of Pittsburgh, University of Sussex, Sussex University, University of Texas, University of Vermont, University of Washington, University of West Virginia, University of Wisconsin, Yale University, Yale
noun
the body of faculty and students at a university
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: body
Narrower terms: gown, varsity
noun
a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: educational institution
Narrower terms: multiversity, Open University
History
From Middle English universite (“institution of higher learning, body of persons constituting a university”) from Anglo-Norman université, from Old French universitei, from Medieval Latin stem of universitas, in juridical and Late Latin "a number of persons associated into one body, a society, company, community, guild, corporation, etc"; in Latin, "the whole, aggregate," from universus (“whole, entire”). By surface analysis, universe + -ity.
Across languages
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