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Definition of University

University The universe; the whole. An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having and acquiring property. An institution organized and incorporated for the purpose of imparting instruction, examining students, and otherwise promoting education in the higher branches of literature, science, art, etc., empowered to confer degrees in the several arts and faculties, as in theology, law, medicine, music, etc. A university may exist without having any college connected with it, or it may consist of but one college, or it may comprise an assemblage of colleges established in any place, with professors for instructing students in the sciences and other branches of learning. Related Definitions: Acquiring, An, And, Any, Art, As, Assemblage, Association, Branches, But, Capable, College, Comprise, Confer, Connected, Consist, Corporation, Education, Empowered, Established, Examining, Exist, Faculties, For, Guild, Having, Imparting, In, Incorporated, Institution, Instructing, Instruction, It, Law, Learning, Literature, May, Medicine, Music, Of, One, Or, Organized, Other, Otherwise, Place, Promoting, Property, Purpose, Science, Several, Society, The, Theology, To, Universe, University, Whole, With, Without

University Quotations A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. Theodore Roosevelt I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University. William F. Buckley, Jr. And for me, it's been, not only where I learned, but the people that I met there. Most of the people that I work with are guys that, one way or another, have been associated with the university. Jon Secada However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn't get a good enough result to go to University. Jeremy Irons A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. George Bernard Shaw

University Translations university in Afrikaans is universiteit university in Danish is universitet university in Dutch is academie, universiteit university in Hungarian is egyetem university in Portuguese is universidade university in Spanish is universidad university in Swedish is universitet

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