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Collegian

//kəˈliː.dʒən// adj, noun, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to a college or its students.
Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    a student (or former student) at a college or university wordnet
  3. 3
    An inmate of a prison. slang

    "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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English collegian, from Medieval Latin collēgiānus.

Etymology 2

From Middle English collegian, from Medieval Latin collēgiānus.

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