University

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An institution for higher learning with teaching and research facilities constituting a graduate school and professional schools that award master's degrees and doctorates and an undergraduate division that awards bachelor's degrees.
  • n. The buildings and grounds of such an institution.
  • n. The body of students and faculty of such an institution.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The universe; the whole.
  • n. An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having and acquiring property.
  • n. An institution organized and incorporated for the purpose of imparting instruction, examining students, and otherwise promoting education in the higher branches of literature, science, art, etc., empowered to confer degrees in the several arts and faculties, as in theology, law, medicine, music, etc. A university may exist without having any college connected with it, or it may consist of but one college, or it may comprise an assemblage of colleges established in any place, with professors for instructing students in the sciences and other branches of learning. In modern usage, a university is expected to have both an undergraduate division, granting bachelor's degrees, and a graduate division, granting master's or doctoral degrees, but there are some exceptions. In addition, a modern university typically also supports research by its faculty.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The whole; the universe.
  • n. A corporation; a gild.
  • n. An association of men for the purpose of study, which confers degrees which are acknowledged as valid throughout Christendom, is endowed, and is privileged by the state in order that the people may receive intellectual guidance, and that the theoretical problems which present themselves in the development of civilization may be resolved.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the body of faculty and students at a university
  • n. establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching
  • n. a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    school    institution   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    school    institute    college    uni    academy   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
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    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    college    institution    hospital    library    church    academy    education    government    department    museum