Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - college

(colleges) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. A college is an institution where students study after they have left school. Their daughter Joanna is doing business studies at a local college... He is now a professor of economics at Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts. N-VAR; N-IN-NAMES 2. A college is one of the institutions which some British universities are divided into. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford. N-COUNT: oft in names after n 3. At some universities in the United States, colleges are divisions which offer degrees in particular subjects. ...a professor at the University of Florida College of Law. N-COUNT; N-IN-NAMES 4. College is used in Britain in the names of some secondary schools which charge fees. In 1854, Cheltenham Ladies’ College became the first girls’ public school. N-IN-NAMES