collegiate
/kəˈliːdʒ(ɪ)ət
/adjective
1Belonging or relating to a college or its students: collegiate life...
- This is an opportunity for all collegiate students to meet and socialize with one another.
- Even collegiate education will be provided and students will be guided until they find a job, says Parikrama.
- Convey's father was a collegiate basketball player and later a coach.
2British (Of a university) composed of different colleges: the Oxford collegiate system...
- In a collegiate university, of which Cambridge and Oxford are the major examples, there is a further complication.
- For his parents there is the comfort of knowing he is protected to an extent within Oxford's collegiate system.
- This lower figure though is in part due to the collegiate nature of the University.
Derivatives
collegiately
- A native of Mullens, West Virginia, D' Antoni played collegiately at Marshall University and graduated as the school's career assist leader in 1973.
- Murray developed her skills as a youth playing in suburban Washington D.C., went on to star collegiately at Seton Hall University, and was a finalist in 1999 for both the Hermann Trophy and the Missouri Athletic Club Award.
- After a year of swimming collegiately, I stopped swimming at age 18, but after five years away from the pool and a lot of soul searching, I started training again in 1998.
Origin
Late Middle English: from late Latin collegiatus, from collegium 'partnership' (see college).
Rhymes
- letter stick
- letter sweater
- letter weigher
- letterweight
- letter-winged kite
- letterwood
- letterword
- letter-worship
- letter writer
- let the cat out of the bag
- let the cobbler stick to his last
- let the side down
- Lettic
- lettice
- lettice cap
- lettiga
- letting
- letting out
- Lettish
- Lettonian
- lettre batarde
- lettre bâtarde
- lettre de cachet
- lettre de forme
- lettrine