Definition of university

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University (n.) An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having and acquiring property..

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Prorector :: Prorector (n.) An officer who presides over the academic senate of a German university.
Civilian :: Civilian (n.) A student of the civil law at a university or college.
Professoriate :: Professoriate (n.) The body of professors, or the professorial staff, in a university or college..
Commoner :: Commoner (n.) A student in the university of Oxford, Eng., who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; - - at Cambridge called a pensioner..
Oxonian :: Oxonian (n.) A student or graduate of Oxford University, in England..
Montem :: Montem (n.) A custom, formerly practiced by the scholars at Eton school, England, of going every third year, on Whittuesday, to a hillock near the Bath road, and exacting money from all passers-by, to support at the university the senior scholar of the school..
Doctor :: Doctor (n.) An academical title, originally meaning a men so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only..
University :: University (n.) An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having and acquiring property..
Nation :: Nation (n.) One of the divisions of university students in a classification according to nativity, formerly common in Europe..
Undergraduate :: Undergraduate (n.) A member of a university or a college who has not taken his first degree; a student in any school who has not completed his course.
Sorbonist :: Sorbonist (n.) A doctor of the Sorbonne, or theological college, in the University of Paris, founded by Robert de Sorbon, a. d. 1252. It was suppressed in the Revolution of 1789..
Bursch :: Bursch (n.) A youth; especially, a student in a german university..
Chum :: Chum (n.) A roommate, especially in a college or university; an old and intimate friend..
Bachelor :: Bachelor (n.) A person who has taken the first or lowest degree in the liberal arts, or in some branch of science, at a college or university; as, a bachelor of arts..
Moderation :: Moderation (n.) The first public examinations for degrees at the University of Oxford; -- usually contracted to mods.
Faculty :: Faculty (n.) The body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college..
University :: University (n.) The universe; the whole.
Fellow :: Fellow (n.) In an American college or university, a member of the corporation which manages its business interests; also, a graduate appointed to a fellowship, who receives the income of the foundation..
Degree :: Degree (n.) Grade or rank to which scholars are admitted by a college or university, in recognition of their attainments; as, the degree of bachelor of arts, master, doctor, etc..
Wranglership :: Wranglership (n.) The honor or position of being a wrangler at the University of Cambridge, England..
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