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College

College (college)
n.(?)
Col"lege
[F. collège, L. collegium, fr. collega colleague. See Colleague.]
  1. A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops.

    The college of the cardinals.
    Shak.

    Then they made colleges of sufferers; persons who, to secure their inheritance in the world to come, did cut off all their portion in this.
    Jer. Taylor.

  2. A society of scholars or friends of learning, incorporated for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of knowledge; as, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and many American colleges.

    * In France and some other parts of continental Europe, college is used to include schools occupied with rudimentary studies, and receiving children as pupils.

  3. A building, or number of buildings, used by a college.
    "The gate of Trinity College." Macaulay.
  4. Fig.: A community.
    [R.]

    Thick as the college of the bees in May.
    Dryden.

    College of justice, a term applied in Scotland to the supreme civil courts and their principal officers. -- The sacred college, the college or cardinals at Rome.














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