collegiate

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collegiate

  • /kəˈliːd͡ʒi.ət/
  • /kəˈliːd͡ʒət/

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

adjective more collegiate · most collegiate

  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.
  2. historical 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.

noun collegiates

  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 […].
  4. slang An inmate of a prison.
  5. abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of collegiate dictionary

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adj of, or relating to a college, or college students

Españolcolegiado
Portuguêsuniversitário, universitária, acadêmico, acadêmica
العربيةجامعي, جامعية

adj of, or relating to a collegium

Русскийколле́жский kolléžskij

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@misc{collegiate_2026,
  title = {collegiate},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/collegiate},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}