university

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

An institution of higher education that provides facilities for teaching, research, and the conferral of academic degrees across undergraduate, graduate, and often professional levels.
The entirety of a group; all members of a class.

Pronunciation

/junɪˈvɜːsəti/ En-uk-university.ogg /ˌjunəˈvərsədi/ /junɪˈvɝsəti/ /junɪˈvɝsɪti/ en-us-university.ogg /ˈjunɪvə(r)sɪʈi/ /jʊnɪˈvə(r)sɪʈi/ [ju(ː).nɨ.və(ː)(ɾ).sɪʈ.i]

Word forms

university universities

Etymology

From Middle English universite (“institution of higher learning, body of persons constituting a university”) from Anglo-Norman université, from Old French universitei, from Medieval Latin stem of universitas, in juridical and Late Latin "a number of persons associated into one body, a society, company, community, guild, corporation, etc"; in Latin, "the whole, aggregate," from universus (“whole, entire”). By surface analysis, universe + -ity.

Synonyms

Related words

universal universe graduate school undergraduate university student

Derived words

corporate university free university Jewniversity nigger university univershitty university belt University City university college university extension university of life university of the streets university professor university student university town varsity vocational university

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