Collegiate Definition

kə-lējĭt, -jē-ĭt
adjective
Of or like a college.
Webster's New World
Of, like, or for college students.
Webster's New World
Of or like a collegiate church.
Webster's New World

Of, or relating to a college, or college students.

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Collegial.

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Synonyms:
noun

(obsolete) A member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education.

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(obsolete) A fellow-collegian; a colleague.

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Other Word Forms of Collegiate

Noun

Singular:
collegiate
Plural:
collegiates

Origin of Collegiate

  • Middle English collegiat from Late Latin collēgiātus from Latin collēgium association collegium

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Medieval Latin collegiatus (“colleague”), from collegium (“community, group”)

    From Wiktionary

Collegiate Sentence Examples

  • There are a Government college, a collegiate school and an unaided Hindu college.

  • Eighteen collegiate teams, including the University of Arkansas and Virginia Military Institute, have switched their programs to Reebok gear.

  • But it was no more a chantry than the other colleges, all of which, like the monasteries and collegiate churches, were to pray for their founders' and other specified souls.

  • Educated at Toronto University, he became a lecturer in English at the Toronto Collegiate Institute and held that post until 1885, when he gave up teaching for journalism, being editor and proprietor of the Lindsay Warder from 1885 to 1897.

  • The 12th century collegiate church, a fine example of the Romanesque style of Limousin, contains a richly sculptured tomb of St Junien, the hermit of the 6th century from whom the town takes its name.

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