Definition of college

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College (n.) A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops..

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Steward :: Steward (n.) In some colleges, an officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students..
Lazarite :: Lazarite (n.) One of the Congregation of the Priests of the Mission, a religious institute founded by Vincent de Paul in 1624, and popularly called Lazarists or Lazarites from the College of St. Lazare in Paris, which was occupied by them until 1792..
Bursary :: Bursary (n.) The treasury of a college or monastery.
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..
Gunter''s Scale :: Gunter's scale () A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant..
Install :: Install (v. t.) To place in an office, rank, or order; to invest with any charge by the usual ceremonies; to instate; to induct; as, to install an ordained minister as pastor of a church; to install a college president..
College :: College (n.) Fig.: A community.
Admittatur :: Admittatur (n.) The certificate of admission given in some American colleges.
Institute :: Institute (n.) An institution; a society established for the promotion of learning, art, science, etc.; a college; as, the Institute of Technology; also, a building owned or occupied by such an institute; as, the Cooper Institute..
Endowment :: Endowment (n.) That which is bestowed or settled on a person or an institution; property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated to any object; as, the endowment of a church, a hospital, or a college..
Dormitory :: Dormitory (n.) A sleeping room, or a building containing a series of sleeping rooms; a sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one connected with a college or boarding school..
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.
Senior :: Senior (a.) Belonging to the final year of the regular course in American colleges, or in professional schools..
Proctor :: Proctor (n.) An officer in a university or college whose duty it is to enforce obedience to the laws of the institution.
Enter :: Enter (v. t.) To unite in; to join; to be admitted to; to become a member of; as, to enter an association, a college, an army..
Scholar :: Scholar (n.) In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues..
Emeritus :: Emeritus (a.) Honorably discharged from the performance of public duty on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; -- said of an officer of a college or pastor of a church..
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..
Valedictorian :: Valedictorian (n.) One who pronounces a valedictory address; especially, in American colleges, the student who pronounces the valedictory of the graduating class at the annual commencement, usually the student who ranks first in scholarship..
Faculty :: Faculty (n.) A body of a men to whom any specific right or privilege is granted; formerly, the graduates in any of the four departments of a university or college (Philosophy, Law, Medicine, or Theology), to whom was granted the right of teaching (profitendi or docendi) in the department in which they had studied; at present, the members of a profession itself; as, the medical faculty; the legal faculty, ect..
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