adjective
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Also: collegial. of or relating to a college or college students
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(of a university) composed of various colleges of equal standing
noun
Other Word Forms
- collegiately adverb
- collegiateness noun
- postcollegiate adjective
- precollegiate adjective
- procollegiate adjective
- pseudocollegiate adjective
- quasi-collegiate adjective
- subcollegiate adjective
- uncollegiate adjective
Etymology
Origin of collegiate
First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English word from Late Latin word collēgiātus. See college, -ate 1
Example Sentences
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The nearly 30,000-square-foot facility includes indoor basketball courts, a physical therapy suite and a state-of-the-art weight room overseen by a coach who previously trained collegiate athletes at Notre Dame and Stanford.
Sean is the definitive picture of the carefree collegiate rebellion, an example of free youth so vile and twisted that Van Der Beek becomes utterly and instantly unrecognizable from the role that made him famous.
From Salon
"He's not very collegiate, which was one reason why he left Reform UK," he said.
From BBC
American Quarterly is only one journal, but what’s found in its pages captures a much larger problem in education, particularly at the collegiate level.
I graduated high school with a decent proficiency in French — better at understanding and reading than speaking — and, soon after, dropped language altogether when it didn’t fit into my collegiate career.
From Salon
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