intercollegiate

CEFRB1

/ˌɪntərkəˈlidʒət/

adjective

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adjective
Involving or taking place between different colleges or universities.
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adjective
Extra detail
A competition between colleges.

Examples

Our team won in the intercollegiate tournament.
A certain Phyllis Styles, an intercollegiate prom-trotter, had failed to get her yearly invitation to the Harvard-Princeton game.

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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In context

We want to do better in the intercollegiates. We think we are strong enough for the dual meets, but we want to make a better show in the intercollegiates.

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A certain Phyllis Styles, an intercollegiate prom-trotter, had failed to get her yearly invitation to the Harvard-Princeton game.
1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, Book One, Chapter 4
We want to do better in the intercollegiates. We think we are strong enough for the dual meets, but we want to make a better show in the intercollegiates.
1916, Wayland Wells Williams, The Whirligig of Time, page 117
The substance of most of these chapters has been given in my college lectures, our present intercollegiate scheme of lecturing (now in operation for about twelve years) offering great facilities for the prosecution of any special studies which happen to suit the taste and capacity of some particular lecturer and a selection of the students.
1881, John Venn, Symbolic Logic, London: Macmillan & Co., Preface
He was given no food. For he had not won an exhibition, Vidiadhar who had brought home clean question papers with ticks beside the questions he had done and a neat list of correct answers to the arithmetic sums, who had begun to learn Latin and French, who had gone to the intercollegiate football match and uttered partisan cries.
1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 4

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From inter- + collegiate.