Collegiate
adj, noun, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A high school. Canada
- 2 A member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education. obsolete
- 3 A fellow-collegian; a colleague. obsolete
"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 An inmate of a prison. slang
- 5 Ellipsis of collegiate dictionary. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
- 1 Of, or relating to a college, or college students.
"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 Collegial.
- 3 Of or relating to a collegium. historical
"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."
- 1 of or resembling or typical of a college or college students wordnet
Synonyms
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More examples"Mary finished collegiate applications today."
Etymology
From Middle English collegiate, from Medieval Latin collēgiātus (“colleague”), from collēgium (“community, group”).