university

Meaning

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.

Hyphenated as

u‧ni‧ver‧si‧ty

Pronounced as (IPA)

/juːnɪˈvɜːsəti/

Etymology

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”).

Sentences

He graduated from the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg.

She is Professor of Modern Political History at Utrecht University .

Sanjiang University also recruits foreign students .

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

Jimei University is structured into faculties called colleges and schools .