collegiate

CEFRC1

/kəˈliːd͡ʒi.ət/

adjective · noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    Related to a college or its students.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

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

Examples

  • She is a member of the collegiate football team.

  • Mary finished collegiate applications today.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
3

Also pronounced

  • /kəˈliːd͡ʒət/

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meaning

  1. Of or relating to a collegium.

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A high school.

  2. A member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education.

More examples

In context

  • In De Tolla’s videos, he suggests Livvy has been deployed to charm Madden into committing to attending LSU when he is of age to play collegiate football.

  • To what happy man did this secluded nook belong? To Andrey Ivanovitch Tyentyetnikov, a landowner of the Tremalahansky district, a young unmarried man of thirty-three, by rank a collegiate secretary.

  • those tables of artificial sines and tangents, not long since set out by mine old collegiate, good friend, and late fellow-student of Christ Church in Oxford, Mr. Edmund Gunter […].

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Origin

adjective

From Middle English collegiate, from Medieval Latin collēgiātus (“colleague”), from collēgium (“community, group”).