collegiate

Etymology

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

adj

  1. Of, or relating to a college, or college students.
  2. Collegial.
  3. (historical, 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

noun

  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.
  4. (slang) An inmate of a prison.

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