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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
collegiate
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a collegiate university
▪ He won the Heisman Trophy as the nation's top collegiate football player.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But collegiate relationships dissolve mostly because of relocation.
▪ He became only the second coach in history to win both a collegiate national championship and a Super Bowl title.
▪ In collegiate circles, sports are divided into non-revenue and revenue categories quite blatantly.
▪ It has parallels with the cathedral and collegiate traditions.
▪ It is dominated by its minster, the collegiate church of St Peter and St Paul.
▪ The Commissioners are politically appointed and as a collegiate body establish policy priorities separate from those of the Council.
▪ The composer first occurs during 1476/7, as a lay clerk of the choir of Holy Trinity collegiate church, Arundel.
▪ The U. S. Postal Service has a rule book the size of a collegiate dictionary.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Collegiate

Collegiate \Col*le"gi*ate\, a. [L. collegiatus.] Of or pertaining to a college; as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society. --Johnson. Collegiate church.

  1. A church which, although not a bishop's seat, resembles a cathedral in having a college, or chapter of canons (and, in the Church of England, a dean), as Westminster Abbey.

  2. An association of churches, possessing common revenues and administered under the joint pastorate of several ministers; as, the Reformed (Dutch) Collegiate Church of New York.

Collegiate

Collegiate \Col*le"gi*ate\, n. A member of a college.
--Burton. [1913 Webster] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
collegiate

mid-15c., from Latin collegiatus "member of a college or corporation," in Medieval Latin, "of or pertaining to a college," from collegium (see college).

Wiktionary
collegiate

a. 1 Of, or relating to a college, or college students. 2 collegial. n. 1 (context obsolete English) A member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education. 2 (context obsolete English) A fellow-collegian; a colleague.

WordNet
collegiate

adj. of or resembling or typical of a college or college students; "collegiate living"; "collegiate attitudes"; "collegiate clothes" [syn: collegial]

Wikipedia
Collegiate

Collegiate may refer to:

  • College
  • Webster's Dictionary, a dictionary with editions referred to as a "Collegiate"
Collegiate (film)

Collegiate is a 1936 American musical film directed by Ralph Murphy and written by Walter DeLeon, Francis Martin and Alice Duer Miller. The film stars Joe Penner, Jack Oakie, Ned Sparks, Frances Langford, Betty Grable and Lynne Overman. The film was released on January 22, 1936, by Paramount Pictures.

The film is a remake of the 1920 silent film The Charm School.

Usage examples of "collegiate".

Lord would stirre up the hearts of some or other of his people in England to give some maintenance toward some Schoole or Collegiate exercise this way, wherein there should be Anatomies and other instructions that way, and where there might be some recompence given to any that should bring in any vegetable or other thing that is vertuous in the way of Physick.

The new Collegiate Church, at the northwest corner of the Fifth avenue and Forty-eighth street, is to be built of brown stone, with light stone trimmings.

This man, who was a canon of the collegiate church of Sainte-Croix and director of the Ursuline convent, will have an important part to play in the following narrative.

They would lay the collegiate registrar in a rough plank coffin and bury him in the ground and no one would come to the funeral.

In the same way that a youthful collegiate regular istrar from the Moscow detective police had once got under the feet of a certain white-eyed killer.

He had no trouble in finding a position in a small collegiate institute and when, four years later, the post of the head of the department of mathematics at the collegiate at Salterton fell vacant, he applied for it, and was chosen from among twenty aspirants.

Hector had a certain reputation as a wit, among the students of the Salterton Collegiate Institute and Vocational School.

Not only was he a collegiate coaching legend, but his son Jeff, who briefly attended Brockport in the late seventies, later established a lofty hoop legacy as the coach of the New York Knicks.

Brooklyn Collegiate Institute for Young Ladies, Brooklyn Heights, opposite the City of New York.

Gerald Meldon, the sonobviouslyof a rich father, who had made collegiate history by dressing in white coveralls, driving along Fifth Avenue, and stealing all the street lamp bulbs one afternoon.

The performances were very much the same as most of us have seen at the academies and collegiate schools.

It means something, in these days, to graduate from one of our first-class academies or collegiate schools.

After Orin Incandenza left the nest to first hit and then kick collegiate balls, there was almost nobody at E.

It is unadulterated moonshine--as the Platonist and Berkeleyan and Hegelian and other orthodox collegiate metaphysical magi can prove to you in one minute.

As if to accentuate the collegiate atmosphere, two longhaired hippies hurled a Frisbee back and forth while enjoying Mahler's Fourth Symphony blaring from a dorm window.