college

A1 Topic:Places & Geography

US /ˈkɒlɪd͡ʒ/ UK /ˈkɒl.ɪdʒ/ See IPA manual

Freq #990

Meanings

1

noun
A place where students study after secondary school, often to earn a degree.

She is studying engineering at college.
2

noun
One of the separate parts that make up some universities.

He was accepted into one of Oxford's oldest colleges.
3

noun
An organized group of people with a shared purpose or profession.

The college of cardinals will choose the new pope.

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Synonyms

3 noun · an organized group of... academy association

More faculty school

Word family

Forms colleges

Derived forms anticollegecollege-agecollege-agedcollege-goercollege-ruledcollegeboundcollegeboycollegegoercollegelesscollegelikecollegematecolleger

Related forms collegiatecollegiumuniversity

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Phrases (1)

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electoral college
the group of electors that formally chooses the United States president and vice president

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Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-der.? Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-der.? Proto-Italic *lēks Latin lēx Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin lēgō Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂ Proto-Italic *-ā Latin -a Latin collēga Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ium Latin collēgiumbor. Old French college Middle French collegebor. Middle Engli…

college Middle English collēgium Latin

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# college

**Type:** Word
**Level:** A1
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈkɒlɪd͡ʒ/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈkɒl.ɪdʒ/
**Frequency rank:** 990

## Meanings
1. A place where students study after secondary school, often to earn a degree.
2. One of the separate parts that make up some universities.
3. An organized group of people with a shared purpose or profession.

## Examples
- She is studying engineering at college.
- He was accepted into one of Oxford's oldest colleges.
- The college of cardinals will choose the new pope.

## Synonyms
- faculty
- school

## Derived Forms
- anticollege
- college-age
- college-aged
- college-goer
- college-ruled
- collegebound
- collegeboy
- collegegoer
- collegeless
- collegelike
- collegemate
- colleger

## Related Forms
- collegiate
- collegium
- university

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: college
- Root: collēgium

## Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-der.? Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-der.? Proto-Italic *lēks Latin lēx Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin lēgō Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂ Proto-Italic *-ā Latin -a Latin collēga Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ium Latin collēgiumbor. Old French college Middle French collegebor. Middle Engli…

## AI Etymology
college is a noun and name. Its historical chain includes Latin con-, Latin lēx, Latin lēgō, Latin collēga, Latin collēgium, Old French college, Middle French college, and Middle English college. Historical forms in the chain include college (Middle English), college (Middle French), college (Old French), and collēgium (Latin). Current senses include a place where students study after secondary school, often to earn a degree, one of the separate parts that make up some universities, and an organized group of people with a shared purpose or profession. Derived forms include anticollege, college-age, college-aged, college-goer, and college-ruled. Related words include collegiate, collegium, and university.

## Topics
- Places & Geography

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