university
Meanings
Plural: universities
Noun
- the body of faculty and students at a university
- establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching
- a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees
- Institution of higher education (typically accepting students from the age of about 17 or 18, depending on country, but in some exceptional cases able to take younger students) where subjects are studied and researched in depth and degrees are offered.
- The entirety of a group; all members of a class.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English universite (“institution of higher learning, body of persons constituting a university”) from Anglo-Norman université, from Old French universitei, from Medieval Latin stem of universitas, in juridical and Late Latin "A number of persons associated into one body, a society, company, community, guild, corporation, etc"; in Latin, "the whole, aggregate," from universus (“whole, entire”).
Scrabble Score: 16
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Words With Friends Score: 18
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