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Collegiate

//kəˈliːd͡ʒi.ət// adj, noun, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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. 2
    Collegial.
  3. 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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or resembling or typical of a college or college students wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A high school. Canada
  2. 2
    A member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education. obsolete
  3. 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. 4
    An inmate of a prison. slang
  5. 5
    Ellipsis of collegiate dictionary. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

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