English Explanatory Dictionary

collegiate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of, or relating to a college, or college students.
  2. Collegial.
  3. Of or relating to a collegium.
noun
  1. A high school.
  2. A member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education.
  3. A fellow-collegian; a colleague.
  4. An inmate of a prison.
  5. Ellipsis of collegiate dictionary.

Pronunciation

/kəˈliːd͡ʒi.ət/ /kəˈliːd͡ʒət/ En-au-collegiate.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Yangolin-collegian.wav

Word forms

collegiate more collegiate most collegiate collegiates

Etymology

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

Derived words

collegiate church collegiately collegiateness extracollegiate intercollegiate intracollegiate multicollegiate noncollegiate postcollegiate precollegiate pseudocollegiate semicollegiate subcollegiate uncollegiate
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