Definition of College

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College

A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops.

A society of scholars or friends of learning, incorporated for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of knowledge; as, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and many American colleges.

A building, or number of buildings, used by a college.

Fig.: A community.

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College Quotations

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Maya Angelou

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.
Ronald Reagan

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Mark Twain

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Theodore Roosevelt

College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Helen Keller

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
Will Rogers

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
Robert Frost

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.
Colin Powell

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
Carl Sagan

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.
Thomas Merton

College Translations

college in Afrikaans is kollege
college in Dutch is college
college in French is college
college in German is Internat
college in Hungarian is egyetem
college in Italian is collegio, collegio
college in Portuguese is faculdade

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