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university

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noun

  1. the body of faculty and students at a university
  2. a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees
  3. establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching

Examples

McGill University, however, has found a way to increase access to its rare books - thanks to a lot of grant money and one badass digital camera.

Most of this I've written down to get my own thoughts in order before I start draughting letters to the media, but first I have a couple of weeks of university to catch up on… sheesh.

Their children were mostly of high school age or attending university which required a great deal of money.

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college

Definitions

noun

  1. a complex of buildings in which an institution of higher education is housed
  2. an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university
  3. the body of faculty and students of a college

Examples

A few weeks later I was fired from my job at Hunter College.

She even has ambitions to return to college and major in interior design and business.

Once upon a time there were three beautiful girls who went to a writing college, and they were each assigned very hazardous duties.

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