Noun: college
| Singular | college |
| Plural | colleges |
Sample Sentences
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College of Engineering
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She's still in college
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These should be his college years, but he joined the Army.
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All the courses here at the college.
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Pembroke College, Cambridge
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Balliol College, Oxford
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University College, London
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Eton College
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Near-synonyms: society, association, academy
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College of Cardinals
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College of Surgeons
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Dissolution of Colleges Act 1545
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Dissolution of Colleges Act 1547
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The Salii were not limited to Rome; similar colleges of dancing priests are known to have existed in many towns of ancient Italy. [1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 9, page 232:]
Nouns inflected like college
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
3. Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
4. Proto-Italic *kom
5. Proto-Italic *kom-
6. Latin con-
7. Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
8. Proto-Indo-European *-s
9. Proto-Indo-European *lḗǵs?
10. Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-
11. Proto-Indo-European *-s
12. Proto-Indo-European *lḗgʰs?
13. Proto-Italic *lēks
14. Latin lēx
15. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
16. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
17. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
18. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
19. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
20. Proto-Italic *-ājō
21. Proto-Italic *-āō
22. Latin -ō
23. Latin lēgō
24. Latin collēga
25. Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós
26. Proto-Italic *-ijos
27. Proto-Italic *-ios
28. Old Latin -ios
29. Latin -iusnom.
30. Latin -ium
31. Latin collēgiumbor.
32. Old French college
33. Middle French collegebor.
34. Middle English college
35. English college
36. From Middle English college, from Middle French college, from Old French college, from Latin collēgium. Doublet of collegium. See: Middle English Nouns '
college', Latin Nouns '
collēgium'.
Verbs referencing "college"
Finnish Nouns
college, Russian Nouns
колледж, German Nouns
College, Ukrainian Nouns
коледж.