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| Main Entry: | university |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | institution of higher education |
| Synonyms: | academy, college, educational institution |
| Notes: | The word college comes from Latin collegium, 'association, partnership,' from collega, 'partner in office.' The word university is from Latin universitas, 'the whole,' from universus, 'combined into one.' The difference between a college and a university is that a college offers degrees in one or a few specific areas, while a university is a collection of colleges. |
| Main Entry: | alma mater |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | school from which one has graduated |
| Synonyms: | academy, college, institution, old school, university, place of graduation, place of matriculation |
| Main Entry: | college |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | institution of higher education |
| Synonyms: | alma mater, association, institute, organization, university, brainery, halls of ivy, halls of knowledge, lyceum, seminary |
| Main Entry: | higher education |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | college and thereon |
| Synonyms: | college, institute, university, graduate school, tertiary school |
| Main Entry: | institution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | organization |
| Synonyms: | academy, association, asylum, business, clinic, college, company, conservatory, establishment, fixture, foundation, guild, hospital, institute, institution, school, seminar, society, system, university, orphanage, seminary |
| Main Entry: | academic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | relating to schooling, learning |
| Synonyms: | bookish, college, erudite, intellectual, learned, pedantic, scholarly, scholastic, studious, university, book-learned, collegiate |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, untaught |
| Main Entry: | school |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place, system for educating |
| Synonyms: | academy, alma mater, blackboard*, college, department, discipline, establishment, faculty, hall, institute, institution, jail*, university, halls of ivy, schoolhouse, seminary |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | faculty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | teachers in educational institution |
| Synonyms: | body, clinic, college, corps, department, institute, organization, personnel, society, staff, university, academics, advisers, employees, instructors, lecturers, literati, mentors, pedagogues, professorate, professors, profs, researchers, scholars, tutors, workers |
| Antonyms: | students |
| Main Entry: | institute/institution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | organization, usually educational |
| Synonyms: | academy, association, asylum, business, clinic, college, company, conservatory, establishment, fixture, foundation, guild, hospital, school, seminar, society, system, think tank, university, orphanage, seminary |
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