collegian
English · Thesaurus
AI In plain words
Writing a short explanation…
Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.
collegian
- /kəˈliː.dʒən/ US
Where it comes from
From Middle English collegian, from Medieval Latin collēgiānus.
noun collegians
- 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.
- 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.
adjective more collegian · most collegian
-
Of or relating to a college or its students.
Opposite: uncollegian
Translations
Talk about this word "collegian." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/collegian. Accessed 7 Nov. 2026. collegian. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 7, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/collegian "collegian." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 7, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/collegian.Cite this
@misc{collegian_2026,
title = {collegian},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/collegian},
urldate = {2026-11-07}
}
