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collegiate en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /kəˈliːd͡ʒət/
  • (Australia) audio
  • /kəˈliːd͡ʒi.ət/
  • (General-American) audio

Etymology

From Middle English collegiate, from Medieval Latin collēgiātus (“colleague”), from collēgium (“community, group”).

Meanings

  1. Of, or relating to a college, or college students; collegial.
    • In De Tolla’s videos, he suggests Livvy has been deployed to charm Madden into committing to attending LSU when he is of age to play collegiate football. 2023 June 8, Kalhan Rosenblatt, “Who is Baby Gronk? Did Livvy 'rizz' him up? What does any of this really mean?”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2023:
  2. (historical, qualifier:Russian Empire) Of or relating to a collegium.
    • To what happy man did this secluded nook belong? To Andrey Ivanovitch Tyentyetnikov, a landowner of the Tremalahansky district, a young unmarried man of thirty-three, by rank a collegiate secretary. 1922 [1842], Constance Garnett, transl., Dead Souls, translation of Мёртвые души by Nikolai Gogol, Book Two, Chapter I:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
most collegiate Degree=Sup lexicographic
more collegiate Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

precollegiate · noncollegiate · collegiateness · collegiately · multicollegiate · pseudocollegiate · extracollegiate · postcollegiate · semicollegiate · collegiate church · uncollegiate · intercollegiate · subcollegiate · intracollegiate

Translations (18)

bg академичен (of, or relating to a college, or college students) · ga coláisteach (of, or relating to a college, or college students) · ca col·legiat (of, or relating to a college, or college students) · ar جامعي (of, or relating to a college, or college students) · pt universitária (of, or relating to a college, or college students) · pl kolegialny (of, or relating to a collegium) · pt universitário (of, or relating to a college, or college students) · io kolegiala (of, or relating to a college, or college students) · uk коле́зький (of, or relating to a collegium) · io kolegia (of, or relating to a college, or college students) · bg университетски (of, or relating to a college, or college students) · ar جامعية (of, or relating to a college, or college students) · pt acadêmico (of, or relating to a college, or college students) · ru колле́жский (of, or relating to a collegium) · es colegiado (of, or relating to a college, or college students) · cy colegaidd (of, or relating to a college, or college students) · gv colaashtagh (of, or relating to a college, or college students) · pt acadêmica (of, or relating to a college, or college students)

collegiate en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /kəˈliːd͡ʒət/
  • (Australia) audio
  • /kəˈliːd͡ʒi.ət/
  • (General-American) audio

Etymology

From Middle English collegiate, from Medieval Latin collēgiātus (“colleague”), from collēgium (“community, group”).

Meanings

  1. (Canada) A high school.
  2. (obsolete) A member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education.
  3. (obsolete) A fellow-collegian; a colleague.
    • 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 […]. 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 4:
  4. (slang) An inmate of a prison.
  5. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of collegiate dictionary.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
collegiates Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

unabridged · learner's

Translations (1)

io kolegiano (member of a college)