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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
collegian
noun
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▪ He had been a gregarious collegian, intrepid traveler and vigorous outdoorsman.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Collegian

Collegian \Col*le"gi*an\, n. A member of a college, particularly of a literary institution so called; a student in a college.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
collegian

late 14c., from college + -ian.

Wiktionary
collegian

n. A student (or a former student) of a college

WordNet
collegian

n. a student (or former student) at a college or university [syn: college man, college boy]

Wikipedia
Collegian

A collegian may be:

  • a member of a college
  • One of the Collegians or Collegiants, a religious sect founded in Holland in 1619
  • an inmate in a prison (slang)

Usage examples of "collegian".

Like a mob of young collegians, they are full of fight, fun, and wickedness, tumbling round the world at such a reckless, rollicking rate, that no prudent underwriter would insure them any more than he would a riotous lad at Yale or Harvard.

Waco was modern, but it still retained a flavour of the past, when the five Cs had been its support: cattle, cotton, corn, collegians and culture.

Their little children, now collegians, did not see life as a haven of domestic tranquillity or a world safe for democracy.

The dudish student had sent the young lady a letter stating he thought some of his fellow collegians had doctored the box of candy, and this explanation was accepted by the girl and her aunt.

The two young collegians hurried to a room attached to the gymnasium, where bicycles, motorcycles, and other things were kept.

As the young collegians had received permission to be out after hours, they did not attempt to take the short cut through The Shallows on returning to Brill.

These two succeeded in forming a crowd of their fellow-students into marching order, and, singing gaily and tooting horns and sounding rattles, and with numerous torches flickering, the collegians tramped around the college buildings and over the campus and then back to the bonfires.

Then, after several collegians had climbed into the tonneau, away the touring car dashed over the road leading to Hope.

Then the train came in, and all the young collegians lost no time in getting aboard.

From the moment when the room began to fill till the moment when it began to empty she did not cease to plough her way to and fro, in a manner equally reminiscent of a hawk swooping on chickens and an earnest collegian bucking the line.

The fact that, under other circumstances, I might have liked this smooth and quiet collegian only irritated me.

He saw him in his mind’s eye, a collegian, a parliament-man,—a Baronet, perhaps.

As always, two collegians clicked away at the ping-pong table, wathed as always by idlers on broken-down sofas.

Biff bolted across the room, putting a rolling block on two of the collegians.