university

u·ni·ver·si·ty  (yn-vûrs-t)

n. pl. u·ni·ver·si·ties

1. An institution for higher learning with teaching and research facilities constituting a graduate school and professional schools that award master's degrees and doctorates and an undergraduate division that awards bachelor's degrees.

2. The buildings and grounds of such an institution.

3. The body of students and faculty of such an institution.

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[Middle English universite, from Old French, from Medieval Latin niversits, from Latin, the whole, a corporate body, from niversus, whole; see universe.]

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university

Noun

pl -ties

1. an institution of higher education with authority to award degrees

2. the buildings, members, staff, or campus of a university [Medieval Latin universitas group of scholars]

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University a body of teachers and students; a number of creatures, persons, or things, 1677; a class of person collectively, 1678.

Examples: the university or common multitude, 1677; of beasts, fowls and fish, 1604; of Christians, 1659; university of all creatures, 1494; of all evils, 1526; of gentiles, 1382; of wickedness, 1382.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	university - the body of faculty and students at a university body - a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity; "the whole body filed out of the auditorium"; "the student body"; "administrative body" academe, academia - the academic world grad school, graduate school - a school in a university offering study leading to degrees beyond the bachelor's degree gown - the members of a university as distinguished from the other residents of the town in which the university is located; "the relations between town and gown are always sensitive" varsity - a British abbreviation of `university'; usually refers to Oxford University or Cambridge University
	2.	university - establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching city university - an urban university in a large city establishment - a public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence Oxbridge - general term for an ancient and prestigious and privileged university (especially Oxford University or Cambridge University) redbrick university - (British informal) a provincial British university of relatively recent founding; distinguished from Oxford University and Cambridge University
	3.	university - a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees educational institution - an institution dedicated to education college - an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university multiversity - a university system having several separate campuses and colleges and research centers Open University - a British university that is open to people without formal academic qualifications and where teaching is by correspondence or broadcasting or summer school

Translations

university [juːnɪˈvəːsɪtɪ] n → universidad f

cpd [student, professor, education, degree] → universitario; [year] → académico;

to be at/go to university → estudiar en/ir a la universidad

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university [juːnɪˈvəːsɪtɪ] n → université f

cpd [student, professor] → d'université; [education, year, degree] → universitaire

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university [juːnɪˈvəːsɪtɪ] n → Universität f

cpd [student, professor] → Universitäts-; [education, year] → akademisch

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university [juːnɪˈvəːsɪtɪ] n → università f inv

cpd [student, professor, education] → universitario/a; [year] → accademico/a