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Noun: college  kó-lij
  1. An institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university
     
  2. A complex of buildings in which an institution of higher education is housed
     
  3. The body of faculty and students of a college

Derived forms: colleges

Type of: body, building complex, complex, educational institution

Part of: academe, academia, school [N. Amer], uni [Brit, informal], university

Encyclopedia: College, Pennsylvania

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