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university Definition

uni·ver·sity (yo̵̅o̅′nə vʉr′sə tē)

noun pl. -·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

university Synonyms

university

modif.

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

university Synonyms

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).

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.
  • enter: It is more difficult to enter university using the vocational program.
  • leave: Do you think you'll get a chance to do any more emulators once you leave university?
  • choose: Step by Step Step 1 When you get your grades, contact your chosen university to see if they will still accept you.

Adjective modifier

  • Scottish: Biblical Studies at the University of Glasgow is distinctive among the Scottish Universities.
  • British: Are you Considering Joining the British Universities Film & Video Council?
  • leading: Simfonec, is the Science Enterprise Center for a number of London's leading universities based at the Cass Business School, London.
  • prestigious: On the other hand, perhaps for you a just and worthy goal is a position at a more prestigious university.
  • Australian: A study published in July found little difference between the overall academic performances of over 300,000 domestic and foreign students in 22 Australian universities.
  • research-intensive: Nottingham is already the most research-intensive university in the East Midlands.

Modifies a noun

  • campus: South West England offers a wide range of options, including space at all its key university campuses.
  • lecturer: Elsie Briggs, a university lecturer, owned this 15th century house from 1958 until her death in 1988.
  • library: One can find these tools at any university library.
  • department: They also teach in college, school or university drama departments.
  • degree: London's workforce is the most highly qualified in the UK, with over a third having a university degree.
  • faculty: Chronicle of Higher Education News source for college and university faculty members and administrators.

Noun used with modifier

  • partner: We also do international student exchanges with partner universities abroad.
  • host: You do not need to pay any tuition fees to your host university.
  • freefall: I can't imagine jumping with a more friendly, relaxed and knowledgeable bunch than the guys I found at freefall university.
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

I had the honor to be the first non-Jewish professor dismissed from a German university.

—Tillich, Paul Johannes

There are as many fools at a university as anywhere† But their folly,I admit, has a certain stampöthe stamp of university training, if you like. It is trained folly.

—Gerhardie,William Alexander

The branch of economics dealing with how to enrich a new nation ('economic development' was the title) was actually forbidden by the courts, on the grounds that no university could pay for the damage its teachers did.

—Stigler, GeorgeJoseph

You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.

—Hazlitt,William

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

—Congreve,William

Thisgreat College, of this ancient University, has seen some strange sights. It has seen Wordsworth drunk and Porson sober. And here am I, a better poet than Porson, and a better scholar than Wordsworth, betwixt and between.

—Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)

The true University these days is a collection of books.

—Carlyle,Thomas

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

—Goheen, Robert F(rancis)

To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College: they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life.

—Gibbon, Edward

Greater lovethanthis,hesaid, nomanhaththat a manlay down his wife for his friend.Go thou and do likewise. Thus, or words to that effect, saith Zarathustra, sometime regius professor of French letters to the university of Oxtail.

—Joyce,James Augustine Aloysius

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

—Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

President Clinton returned today†to the university wherehe didn't inhale, didn't get drafted, and didn't get a degree.

—Dowd, Maureen

A university where, at last, the Jews are hosts, and not guests as we have always been before.

—Sachar, Abram Leon