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152 words match “COLLEGE”

CALENDAR n.
legislative assemblly; a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court; a calendar of a college or an academy.
CAMPUS n.
The principal grounds of a college or school, between the buildings or within the main inclosure; as, the college campus.
CAPUT n.
f the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856. Your caputs and heads of colleges. Lamb. Caput mortuum (. Etym: [L., dead head.] (Old Chem.) The residuum after distillation or sublimation; hence, worthless residue.
CARDINAL n.
.C.Ch.) One of the ecclesiastical prince who constitute the pope's council, or the sacred college. The clerics of the supreme Chair are called Cardinals, as undoubtedly adhering more nearly to the hinge by which all things are moved. Pope Leo IX.
CATALOGUE n.
arranged methodically, often in alphabetical order; as, a catalogue of the students of a college, or of books, or of the stars. Card catalogue, a catalogue, as of books, having each item entered on a separate card, and the cards arranged in cases by subjects, or authors, or alphabetically. -- Catalogue raisonné Etym:…
CHUM n. 2 definitions
A roommate, especially in a college or university; an old and intimate friend.
CIVILIAN n.
A student of the civil law at a university or college. R. Graves.
CLASS n.
A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.
CLASS DAY n.
In American colleges and universities, a day of the commencement season on which the senior class celebrates the completion of its course by exercises conducted by the members, such as the reading of the class histories and poem, the delivery of the class oration, the planting of the class ivy, etc.…
CLASSIC; CLASSICAL a.
e. Brande & C. He [Atterbury] directed the classical studies of the undergraduates of his college. Macaulay.
CLASSMATE n.
One who is in the same class with another, as at school or college.
CLOISTER n.
eries of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale. Milton.
COLLEGIAN n.
A member of a college, particularly of a literary institution so called; a student in a college.
COLLEGIATE a. 2 definitions
Of or pertaining to a college; as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society. Johnson. Collegiate church. (a) A church which, although not a bishop's seat, resembles a cathedral in having a college, or chapter of canons (and, in the Church of England, a dean), as Westminster Abbey. (b) An association of churches, posses…
COLLOQUY n.
In some American colleges, a part in exhibitions, assigned for a certain scholarship rank; a designation of rank in collegiate scholarship.
COMMENCEMENT n.
The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.
COMMERCIAL a.
cial advantages; commercial relations. "Princely commercial houses." Macaulay. Commercial college, a school for giving instruction in commercial knowledge and business. -- Commercial law. See under Law. -- Commercial note paper, a small size of writing paper, usually about 5 by 7½ or 8 inches. -- Commercial paper, n…
COMMONS n. 2 definitions
Provisions; food; fare, -- as that provided at a common table in colleges and universities. Their commons, though but coarse, were nothing scant. Dryden.
CONDITION v.
ination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college; as, to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study.
CONSISTORY n.
An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome. Pius was then hearing of causes in consistory. Bacon.
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