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Collegiate definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COLLEGIATE, a.
1. Pertaining to a college; as collegiate studies.
2. Containing a college; instituted after the manner of a college; as a collegiate society.
3. A collegiate church is one that has no bishops see; but has the ancient retinue of a bishop, canons and prebends. Of these some are of royal, others of ecclesiastical foundation; and each is regulated, in matters of divine service, as a cathedral. Some of these were anciently abbeys which have been secularized.
COLLEGIATE, n. The member of a college.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin collegiatus, from Latin collegium Date: 15th century 1. of or relating to a collegiate church 2. of, relating to, or comprising a college 3. collegial 2 4. designed for or characteristic of college students • collegiately adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. constituted as or belonging to a college; corporate. Phrases and idioms: collegiate church 1 a church endowed for a chapter of canons but without a bishop's see. 2 US & Sc. a church or group of churches established under a joint pastorate. Derivatives: collegiately adv. Etymology: LL collegiatus (as COLLEGE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Collegiate Col*le"gi*ate, n. A member of a college. --Burton.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Collegiate means belonging or relating to a college or to college students. (mainly AM) The 1933 national collegiate football championship was won by Michigan. ...collegiate life. = college ADJ: ADJ n

Moby Thesaurus

academic, autodidactic, bookish, classroom, college-bred, extramural, graduate, interscholastic, intramural, learned, postgraduate, preschool, scholastic, school, schoolboyish, schoolgirlish, sophomoric, studentlike, studious, undergraduate, university