Though his stay in Europe was transient, Spenser felt he had learned much more about interactions with other people from traveling than he did at college.
Source: tatoeba (1946)
College
//ˈkɒlɪd͡ʒ//
Synonyms for "college" (78 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (23)
coalitioncollege of engineeringcombinationcombinecommon marketcommunity collegeconfederacyconfederationconsumer cooperativecooperativecooperative societycorpscouncilcredit unioncustoms uniondegree-granting institutioneconomic communityfederationfour-year collegefree trade area
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Noun(2 words)
Related words (39)
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More general
4 entriesMore specific
9 entriesRelated terms
5 entriesat location
7 entriescapable of
5 entriescoordinate
3 entriesdefined as
1 entriesderived
53 entriesShowing 16 of 53 words.
has a
1 entrieshas context
8 entrieshas property
1 entrieshas subevent
1 entriesis a
13 entriespart of
1 entriesrelated to
103 entriesShowing 16 of 103 words.
used for
16 entriesTranslations
255 translations across 47 languages.
Arabic
4 entries- كلية noun (academic institution)
- كُلِّيَّة noun (academic institution)
- كُلِّيَّة noun (institution of higher education teaching undergraduates)
- كُلِّيَّة noun (institution of further education at an intermediate level)
Belarusian
1 entries- кале́дж noun (institution of higher education)
Bengali
1 entries- মহাবিদ্যালয় noun (institution of further education at an intermediate level)
Bulgarian
2 entries- коле́ж noun (academic institution)
- коле́ж noun (institution of higher education)
Catalan
4 entries- col·legi noun (group of colleagues)
- col·legi noun (group sharing common purposes or goals)
- col·legi noun (academic institution)
- universitat noun (institution of higher education)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 大學 /大学 noun (institution of higher education)
- 大學 /大学 noun (institution of higher education teaching undergraduates)
- 大學 /大学 noun (institution for adult education at a basic or intermediate level)
- 大專 /大专 noun (postsecondary institution that does not award bachelor's degrees)
Dutch
1 entries- faculteit noun (specialized division of a university)
Esperanto
4 entries- altlernejo noun (institution of higher education)
- fakultato noun (institution of higher education teaching undergraduates)
- universitato noun (academic institution)
- universitato noun (institution of higher education)
Finnish
4 entries- aikuisoppilaitos noun (institution for adult education at a basic or intermediate level)
- akatemia noun (academic institution)
- ammattikorkeakoulu noun (institution of higher education teaching undergraduates)
- ammattikorkeakoulu noun (institution of further education at an intermediate level)
French
4 entries- collège noun (group of colleagues)
- fac (short for faculté) noun (institution of higher education)
- faculté noun (specialized division of a university)
- université noun (academic institution)
German
4 entries- Berufsfachschule noun (institution of further education at an intermediate level)
- Berufskolleg noun (institution of further education at an intermediate level)
- Berufskolleg noun (institution for adult education at a basic or intermediate level)
- Fachhochschule noun (institution of higher education)
Greek
4 entries- κολέγιο noun (academic institution)
- κολέγιο noun (institution of higher education)
- κολέγιο noun (institution of further education at an intermediate level)
- πανεπιστήμιο noun (academic institution)
Hebrew
3 entries- מִכְלָלָה noun (institution of higher education)
- מִכְלָלָה noun (institution of higher education teaching undergraduates)
- מִכְלָלָה noun (non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university)
Hindi
4 entries- आवासीय शाला noun (residential hall of a university)
- महाविद्यालय noun (academic institution)
- महाविद्यालय noun (institution of higher education)
- महाविद्यालय noun (institution of higher education teaching undergraduates)
Hungarian
4 entries- egyetem noun (institution of higher education)
- egyetem noun (institution of higher education teaching undergraduates)
- fakultás noun (specialized division of a university)
- főiskola noun (institution of higher education)
Ido
1 entries- kolegio noun (institution of higher education teaching undergraduates)
Indonesian
1 entries- kampus noun (academic institution)
Iranian Persian
4 entries- آموزِشْگاه noun (in the formal names of private schools: secondary school)
- آموزِشْگاه noun (institution of further education at an intermediate level)
- آموزِشْگاه noun (institution for adult education at a basic or intermediate level)
- دانِشْکَدِه noun (institution of higher education)
Italian
2 entries- facoltà noun (specialized division of a university)
- scuola universitaria noun (institution of higher education)
Japanese
4 entries- 単科大学 noun (institution of higher education teaching undergraduates)
- 大学 noun (academic institution)
- 大学 noun (institution of higher education)
- 大学 noun (institution of higher education teaching undergraduates)
Kazakh
2 entries- алқа noun (group sharing common purposes or goals)
- институт noun (institution of higher education teaching undergraduates)
Khmer
1 entries- វិទ្យាល័យ noun (academic institution)
Korean
1 entries- 대학 noun (institution of higher education)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- коллеж noun (institution of higher education)
Latin
1 entries- collegium educationis superioris noun (institution of higher education)
Lithuanian
4 entries- koledžas noun (institution of higher education)
- koledžas noun (institution of higher education teaching undergraduates)
- koledžas noun (non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university)
- koledžas noun (in the formal names of private schools: secondary school)
Macedonian
4 entries- акаде́мија noun (institution of further education at an intermediate level)
- ви́ша шко́ла noun (institution of higher education)
- ви́ша шко́ла noun (institution of higher education teaching undergraduates)
- институ́т noun (non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university)
Malay
2 entries- kolej noun (institution of further education at an intermediate level)
- maktab noun (institution of higher education)
Malayalam
4 entries- കലാലയം noun (academic institution)
- കലാലയം noun (institution of higher education)
- കലാലയം noun (institution of higher education teaching undergraduates)
- കോളേജ് noun (academic institution)
Māori
2 entries- kāreti noun (institution of higher education)
- kāreti noun (in the formal names of private schools: secondary school)
Norman
3 entries- collège noun (non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university)
- collège noun (institution of further education at an intermediate level)
- collège noun (institution for adult education at a basic or intermediate level)
Persian
1 entries- دانشکده noun (academic institution)
Polish
3 entries- kolegium noun (group sharing common purposes or goals)
- szkoła wyższa noun (institution of higher education)
- wydział noun (specialized division of a university)
Portuguese
4 entries- IES noun (institution of higher education)
- colégio noun (in the formal names of private schools: secondary school)
- faculdade noun (institution of higher education teaching undergraduates)
- faculdade noun (specialized division of a university)
Romanian
4 entries- colegiu noun (institution of further education at an intermediate level)
- colegiu noun (institution for adult education at a basic or intermediate level)
- facultate noun (institution of higher education teaching undergraduates)
- facultate noun (non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university)
Russian
4 entries- ПТУ noun (institution for adult education at a basic or intermediate level)
- акаде́мия noun (academic institution)
- вуз noun (academic institution)
- вуз noun (institution of higher education)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- fakùltēt noun (specialized division of a university)
- instìtūt noun (non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university)
- kòledž noun (institution of further education at an intermediate level)
- veleučilište noun (institution of further education at an intermediate level)
Sindhi
1 entries- ڪاليج noun (institution of higher education)
Slovak
1 entries- vysoká škola noun (institution of further education at an intermediate level)
Spanish
4 entries- colegio noun (high school or secondary school)
- escuela de artes aplicadas noun (postsecondary institution that does not award bachelor's degrees)
- escuela de ciencias aplicadas noun (postsecondary institution that does not award bachelor's degrees)
- escuela técnica noun (postsecondary institution that does not award bachelor's degrees)
Swedish
4 entries- fakultet noun (institution of higher education)
- fakultet noun (specialized division of a university)
- högskola noun (academic institution)
- högskola noun (institution of higher education)
Thai
4 entries- วิทยาลัย noun (academic institution)
- วิทยาลัย noun (institution of higher education)
- วิทยาลัย noun (institution of higher education teaching undergraduates)
- วิทยาลัย noun (postsecondary institution that does not award bachelor's degrees)
Turkish
1 entries- kolej noun (in the formal names of private schools: secondary school)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ко́ледж noun (institution of higher education)
Urdu
4 entries- دانش کدہ noun (academic institution)
- دانِش گاہ noun (institution of higher education teaching undergraduates)
- دانِش گاہ noun (non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university)
- کالِج noun (institution of higher education)
Vietnamese
2 entries- khoa noun (specialized division of a university)
- trường cao đẳng noun (institution of higher education teaching undergraduates)
Welsh
4 entries- coleg noun (non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university)
- coleg noun (in the formal names of private schools: secondary school)
- coleg noun (institution of further education at an intermediate level)
- coleg noun (institution for adult education at a basic or intermediate level)
Sample sentences
23 total sentences available.
Which college are you aiming for?
Source: tatoeba (16483)
I think your father hoped you would go to college.
Source: tatoeba (17406)
While employed at the bank, he taught economics at college.
Source: tatoeba (18444)
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