university

Signification (Anglais)

1. Institution of higher education (typically accepting students from the age of about 17 or 18, depending on country, but in some exceptional cases able to take younger students) where subjects are studied and researched in depth and degrees are offered.
2. (obsolete) The entirety of a group; all members of a class.

Concepts

université

universitaire

Aristote

aristote

académie

établissement universitaire

univ

fac

collège

Coupé comme

u‧ni‧ver‧si‧ty

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/juːnɪˈvɜːsəti/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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”).

Phrases

He graduated from the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg.

Il est diplômé de l'Université d'Erlangen - Nuremberg.

She is Professor of Modern Political History at Utrecht University .

Elle est professeure d'histoire politique moderne à l'Université d'Utrecht.

Sanjiang University also recruits foreign students .

L'Université de Sanjiang recrute également des étudiants étrangers.

He accepted a scholarship to play locally at Wichita State University .

Il a accepté une bourse pour jouer localement à l'Université d'État de Wichita.

Jimei University is structured into faculties called colleges and schools .

L'Université Jimei est structurée en facultés appelées collèges et écoles.