college

From Middle English college, from Old French college, from Latin collegium.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒlɪd͡ʒ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑlɪd͡ʒ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒlɪdʒ

college (plural colleges)

1. (obsolete) A corporate group; a group of colleagues.
2. (in some proper nouns) A group sharing common purposes or goals.

   College of Cardinals, College of Surgeons

3. (politics) An electoral college.
4. An academic institution. [From 1560s.]
5. A specialized division of a university.

   College of Engineering

6. (chiefly US) An institution of higher education teaching undergraduates.
7. (attributively, chiefly US) Attendance at an institution of higher education.

   These should be his college years, but he joined the Army.

8. (Canada, Israel) A postsecondary institution that offers vocational training and/or associate's degrees.
9. (chiefly Britain) A non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university, with its own faculty, departments, library, etc.

   Pembroke College, Cambridge; Balliol College, Oxford; University College, London

10. (Britain) An institution of further education at an intermediate level; sixth form.
11. (Britain) An institution for adult education at a basic or intermediate level (teaching those of any age).
12. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa) A high school or secondary school.

    Eton College

13. (Australia) A private (non-government) primary or high school.
14. (Australia) A residential hall associated with a university, possibly having its own tutors.
15. (in Chile) A bilingual school.

• (specialized division of a university) department, faculty, school

• community college
• electoral college
• junior college

• fresh-out-of-college
• out-of-college

• old college try
• collegiate
• collegium

• university

• geocell

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college n (plural colleges, diminutive collegetje n)

1. lecture, class

• IPA^(key): /ˈkolids/, [ˈko̞lids̠]
• IPA^(key): /ˈkolidsi/, [ˈko̞lids̠i] (especially in the sweatshirt sense)

college

1. college (learning institution)
2. college sweatshirt

This table shows the spoken declension with IPA symbols, which falls nicely into risti -class.

Written declension is more complicated due to the difficulty of combining "college" with risti-type endings. Therefore, it might be advisable to avoid inflecting this word in writing by using synonyms, when available. If one has to, one option is to write as if the pronunciation were finnicized to /ˈko̞lːe̞ge̞/, in which case the word would fall into nalle-category with the exception that collegeiden seems to be more commonly used as genitive plural than collegejen and collegein is not used as genitive plural:

• (sweatshirt): collegepusero

• colegg, colege, collage, colage, colegie

From Old French college, from Latin collegium.

• IPA^(key): /kɔlˈɛːdʒ(ə)/, /kɔlˈaːdʒ(ə)/, /ˈkɔlɛdʒ(ə)/

college (plural collegis)

1. A grouping of clergy (usually relying on public funding).
2. A grouping of teachers and students; a university or part of one.
3. A grouping of colleagues; a team or organisation.

• collegial
• collegian
• collegiate

• English: college
• Scots: college

• “collē̆ǧe (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-12.

Borrowed from Latin collegium.

college m (oblique plural colleges, nominative singular colleges, nominative plural college)

1. institution; organization (establishment of people with similar aims/goals)

   college des Cardinaux ― College of Cardinals

• English: college
• French: collège