Collegiate Meaning
/kəˈliːd͡ʒi.ət/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjOf, or relating to a college, or college students.
adjCollegial.
Sentence Examples
Mary finished collegiate applications today.
She is a member of the collegiate football team.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ atmosphere of the university inspired deep academic discussions.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He was an outstanding ____ athlete before turning professional right after graduation.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English collegiate, from Medieval Latin collēgiātus (“colleague”), from collēgium (“community, group”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 2023 June 8, Kalhan Rosenblatt, “Who is Baby Gronk? Did Livvy 'rizz' him up? What does any of this really mean?”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2023:
"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."
— 1922 [1842], Constance Garnett, transl., Dead Souls, translation of Мёртвые души by Nikolai Gogol, Book Two, Chapter I:
"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 […]."
— 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 4:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The ____ atmosphere of the university inspired deep academic discussions.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He was an outstanding ____ athlete before turning professional right after graduation.