UNIVERSITY
\jˌuːnɪvˈɜːsɪtˌi], \jˌuːnɪvˈɜːsɪtˌi], \j_ˌuː_n_ɪ_v_ˈɜː_s_ɪ_t_ˌi]\
Definitions of UNIVERSITY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees
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establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching
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the body of faculty and students at a university
By Princeton University
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a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees
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establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching
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the body of faculty and students at a university
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The universe; the whole.
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An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having and acquiring property.
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An institution organized and incorporated for the purpose of imparting instruction, examining students, and otherwise promoting education in the higher branches of literature, science, art, etc., empowered to confer degrees in the several arts and faculties, as in theology, law, medicine, music, etc. A university may exist without having any college connected with it, or it may consist of but one college, or it may comprise an assemblage of colleges established in any place, with professors for instructing students in the sciences and other branches of learning.
By Oddity Software
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The universe; the whole.
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An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having and acquiring property.
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An institution organized and incorporated for the purpose of imparting instruction, examining students, and otherwise promoting education in the higher branches of literature, science, art, etc., empowered to confer degrees in the several arts and faculties, as in theology, law, medicine, music, etc. A university may exist without having any college connected with it, or it may consist of but one college, or it may comprise an assemblage of colleges established in any place, with professors for instructing students in the sciences and other branches of learning.
By Noah Webster.
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Educational institutions providing facilities for teaching and research and authorized to grant academic degrees.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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An institution for education in the higher branches of learning, divided into various departments, as of the arts, medicine, law, engineering, etc., and having the right to confer degrees in each of these departments.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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A corporation of teachers or assemblage of colleges for teaching the higher branches of learning, and having power to confer degrees.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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An incorporated institution for the purpose of imparting instruction in literature and science, and possessing the legal power of conferring degrees.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Latin] A universal school, in which are taught all branches of learning, or the four faculties of theology, medicine, law, and the sciences and arts; an assemblage of colleges established in any place, with professors for instructing students in the sciences and other branches of learning, and where degrees are conferred.
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