university
Other forms: universities
A university is a big school where you go to get a degree — maybe even a master’s or PhD. If you’re going to a university, you’re probably on a big campus that also offers housing for students and professors.
Just like the word universe (“the whole world”), university comes from the Latin word universus, meaning "whole, entire." So think of a university as being sort of a world of its own — an institute of higher education where you live and study. A university generally offers advanced degrees and research opportunities in many fields. Sometimes college and university are used to mean the same thing, but colleges are typically smaller and more limited in scope than universities.
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a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degreestypes:multiversitya university system having several separate campuses and colleges and research centersOpen Universitya British university that is open to people without formal academic qualifications and where teaching is by correspondence or broadcasting or summer schooltype of:educational institutionan institution dedicated to education
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establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teachingexamples:Brown Universitya university in Rhode IslandCambridge Universitya university in EnglandCarnegie Mellon Universityan engineering university in PittsburghColumbia Universitya university in New York CityCooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Artuniversity founded in 1859 by Peter Cooper to offer free courses in the arts and sciencesCornell Universitya university in Ithaca, New YorkDuke Universitya university in Durham, North CarolinaHarvard Universitya university in MassachusettsJohns Hopkinsa university in BaltimoreMassachusetts Institute of Technologyan engineering university in CambridgeOhio State Universitya university in Columbus, OhioOxford Universitya university in EnglandUniversity of Parisa university in Paris; intellectual center of FrancePrinceton Universitya university in New JerseyStanford Universitya university in CaliforniaUniversity of California at Berkeleya university in Berkeley, CaliforniaUniversity of Chicagoa university in Chicago, IllinoisUniversity of Michigana university in Ann Arbor, MichiganUniversity of Nebraskaa university in Lincoln, NebraskaUniversity of North Carolinaa university in Chapel Hill, North CarolinaUniversity of Pennsylvaniaa university in Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaUniversity of Pittsburgha university in Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaUniversity of Sussexa red-brick university in Brighton, EnglandUniversity of Texasa university in Austin, TexasUniversity of Vermonta university in Burlington, VermontUniversity of Washingtona university in Seattle, WashingtonUniversity of West Virginiaa university in Morgantown, West VirginiaUniversity of Wisconsina university in Madison, WisconsinYale Universitya university in Connecticuttypes:city universityan urban university in a large cityOxbridgegeneral term for an ancient and prestigious and privileged university (especially Oxford University or Cambridge University)redbrick university(British informal) a provincial British university of relatively recent founding; distinguished from Oxford University and Cambridge Universitytype of:establishmenta public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence
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the body of faculty and students at a universitytypes:gownthe members of a university as distinguished from the other residents of the town in which the university is locatedvarsitya British abbreviation of 'university'; usually refers to Oxford University or Cambridge Universitytype of:bodya group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity
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