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Collegiate

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
kəˈliːd͡ʒi.ət

Definitions

  1. A high school.
    Canada
  2. A member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education.
    obsolete
  3. A fellow-collegian; a colleague.
    obsolete
  4. An inmate of a prison.
    slang
  5. Ellipsis of collegiate dictionary.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

Equivalents

5 more languages
Българскиакадемичен
Catalàcol·legiat
Cymraegcolegaidd
Gaeilgecoláisteach
Polskikolegialny

Examples

“those tables of artificial sines and tangents, not long since set⟳ out by mine old collegiate, good friend, and late fellow-student of Christ Church in Oxford, Mr. Edmund Gunter […].”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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See also

collegiate church Collegiate Gothic Collegiate Peaks Collegiately collegiateness collegienne

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