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uni·ver·sity (yo̵̅o̅′nə vʉr′sə tē)

noun pl. universities -·ties

  1. an educational institution of the highest level, typically, in the U.S., with one or more undergraduate colleges, together with a program of graduate studies and a number of professional schools, and authorized to confer various degrees, as the bachelor's, master's, and doctor's
  2. the grounds, buildings, etc. of a university
  3. the students, faculty, and administrators of a university collectively

Etymology: ME universite < MFr université < ML universitas < L, the whole, universe, society, guild < universus: see universe

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university Synonyms

university

modif.

professional, advanced, graduate, college, collegiate, undergraduate, freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, learned, academic, educational.


university

n.

college, educational institution, institution of higher learning, multiversity, megaversity, normal school, state university, provincial university; see also academy, college, school 1.

Famous universities of the world include: Paris (Sorbonne), Oxford, Cambridge, Padua, Bologna, Brussels, Halle, Zurich, Basle, Goettingen, London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Oslo, Leipzig, Vienna, Upsala, Lund, Copenhagen, Berlin, Heidelberg, Moscow, Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Kazan, Kiev, Charles (in Prague), Peking, Toronto, McGill, Melbourne, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, Tufts, Duke, Stanford, Columbia, Chicago, California, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Rutgers, Notre Dame, Vassar, Wesleyan, Wellesley, Purdue, Pitt, Rice, Texas A&M, Georgetown, Auburn, Bryn Mawr, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), California Institute of Technology (CIT).


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university Usage Examples

Converse of subject

  • administer: Entry for non-degree holders is via the Graduate Management Admissions Test ( GMAT ) administered by the university.

Converse of object

  • attend: Those attending university outside of Wales will still have to pay the full top-up fee amount.

Adjective modifier

  • prestigious: On the other hand, perhaps for you a just and worthy goal is a position at a more prestigious university.

Modifies a noun

  • campus: South West England offers a wide range of options, including space at all its key university campuses.

Noun used with modifier

  • host: You do not need to pay any tuition fees to your host university.
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university quotes

The post-war period has not been marked bya great aesthetic debate about the novel comparable to that of the earlier half of the century, in part because the role of the writer and critic divided, the writer going off to the marketplace and the critic to the university (which eventually turned out to be much the same thing).

-Bradbury, Malcolm Stanley

The true University these days is a collection of books.

-Carlyle,Thomas

Aye,'tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an

-Congreve,William

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