college
the body of faculty and students of a college
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,044 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 8,747 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- the body of faculty and students of a college
- an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university
- a complex of buildings in which an institution of higher education is housed
college in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Their names are always on some college catalogue or other.
Elsie Venner · Oliver Wendell Holmes · Chapter 1
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And your last year at college was--was all I could wish.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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We owe our thanks to the Rev. E. Warre, of Eton College, for certain corrections on nautical points.
The Odyssey of Homer · 751? BCE-651? BCE Homer · Chapter 1
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The Reverend Mr. Hopewell is a very aged clergyman of the Church of England, and was educated at Cambridge College, in Massachusetts.
The Attaché · Thomas Chandler Haliburton · Chapter 1
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The taste of these boys was scholarly, and four of them went through the Latin School to Harvard College, and graduated there.
Poems Household Edition · Ralph Waldo Emerson · Chapter 1