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Meaning of Varsity | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈvɑː.sɪ.ti

Definitions

  1. university
  2. The principal sports team representing an institution (usually a high school, college, or university.)

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] and then to lyrically proclaim that, not only was it a way they had in the Varsity to drive dull care away, but that the same practice was also pursued in the army and navy for the attainment of a similar end.”
“There were sixteen of them in all, for the most part upper classmen who had failed to make the varsity the year before, with a sprinkling of sophomores and two freshmen.”
“A small Pennsylvania university has only one varsity program: e-sports. Is this the future of college athletics?”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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