university

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) The entirety of a group; all members of a class.

Synonyms

college

academy

school

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educational institution

varsity

collegiate

state university

natinoal university

Athenaeum

university institution

U.

Univ.

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school

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academic

alma mater

campus

institute

private university

Translations

università

université

universidad

Universität

universiteit

universidade

πανεπιστήμιο

universitat

Hochschule

üniversite

جامعة

zanîngeh

academie

zanko

Pronounced as (IPA)

/juːnɪˈvɜːsəti/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: universite

In summary

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 teaches at Stockholm University .

Doctor Breslin , the university vice president , was not so sure .

He taught economics at the University of Dhaka .

Mechnikov Odessa State University .

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

The Millersville University Library is housed in Ganser Hall .