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colleger|ˈkɒlɪdʒə(r)|
[f. college n. + -er.]
1. A member or inmate of a college.
†a. A member of the same college, a fellow-collegian, colleague. Obs.
1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 460 a, If they do against those lawes..than their Collegers should remove them.
b. spec. One of the seventy boys on the foundation of Eton College.
1678in Etoniana 216, 5th Form, Collegers. 1740H. Walpole Corr. (1820) I. 51 Our Cicerone, who has less classic knowledge and more superstition than a colleger. 1844Disraeli Coningsby i. xi, The Captain of the Oppidans and the senior Colleger next to the Captain of the school, figure..in fancy costume. 1882Standard 1 Dec. 7/2 The Collegers had a little the advantage in the first part of the game.
c. An inmate of a ‘college’ (sense 7) or charitable foundation, a pensioner.
1886Besant Childr. Gibeon in Longm. Mag. VII. 346 She was..no more than sixty or so, which is young for a colleger at Lily's.
d. A member of or student at a college. U.S.
1828Harvard Reg. 1827 214 If we get fore-handed enough we'll send him to be a Colledger, and make a Parson of him. 1927J. Freeman When West was Young 345 You don't need to git rough, you young colleger!
2. A mortar-board. slang.
1889in Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang I. 264/1. 1958 J. Betjeman Coll. Poems 45 When my son's colleger acted as tray For an ice and a macaroon. |