university
uni·ver·sity
noun
the body of faculty and students at a university
establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching
a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees
Origin
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”). By surface analysis, universe + -ity.
Phrases
- corporate university
- free university
- nigger university
- university belt
- University City
- university college
- university extension
- university of life
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Word family
- university student
- university extension
- University of California at Berkeley
- University of Chicago
- University of Michigan
- University of Nebraska
- University of North Carolina
- University of Paris
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Sussex
- University of Texas
- University of Vermont
- University of Washington
- University of West Virginia
- University of Wisconsin
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