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collegian en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /kəˈliː.dʒən/ (General-American)
Etymology
From Middle English collegian, from Medieval Latin collēgiānus.
Meanings
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Of or relating to a college or its students.
Forms
Antonyms
uncollegian
collegian en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /kəˈliː.dʒən/ (General-American)
Etymology
From Middle English collegian, from Medieval Latin collēgiānus.
Meanings
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A student (or a former student) of a college
She then remembered that her own early bearing towards him had been haughty, and indifferent; that she had sneered at the young collegian's shyness; and now thought with "the late remorse of love," how unlike to this had been Ethel's gentle kindness.
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Anticipation”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 42:
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(slang) An inmate of a prison.
While it [the wind] roared through the steeple of St George’s Church, and twirled all the cowls in the neighbourhood, it made a swoop to beat the Southwark smoke into the jail; and, plunging down the chimneys of the few early collegians who were yet lighting their fires, half suffocated them.
1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
Forms
Deriveds
noncollegian
Translations (6)
bg колежа́нин (student of a college) · cmn 大學生 /大学生 (student of a college) · ja 大学生 (student of a college) · gv colaashtagh (student of a college) · io kolegiano (student of a college) · ga coláisteánach (student of a college)