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collegian en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /kəˈliː.dʒən/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Middle English collegian, from Medieval Latin collēgiānus.

Meanings

  1. Of or relating to a college or its students.

Forms

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more collegian Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most collegian Degree=Sup lexicographic

Antonyms

uncollegian

collegian en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /kəˈliː.dʒən/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Middle English collegian, from Medieval Latin collēgiānus.

Meanings

  1. 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:
  2. (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

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collegians Number=Plur lexicographic

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)