university
part of speech
noun (a university, universities)
meaning for a pupil
1) A place of higher learning where people study for degrees after school and where research is done. tree →
2) The people (students and teachers) who belong to it. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life: older brothers, sisters or parents go to university; in the USA people often say «college». In stories, a professor works at a university. Phrases: «go to university» (UK), «at university», «university student».
examples
- My sister is going to university to study medicine. tree →
- The university has a huge library. tree →
- Dad works as a cleaner at the university. tree →
- She is the first in her family to go to university. tree →
- The university museum has dinosaur bones. tree →
- A university year often has two or three terms. tree →
- Throughout their lives they remained close friends, and both studied law at Marburg University. tree →
note
Takes «a», not «an», because it starts with a «you» sound: «a university». Plural universities (y → ies). UK: «go to university» with no «the»; US: «go to college». Capital letter in a name: Harvard University.
In the corpora
- Copying rules get stricter as you get older, and universities can punish AI copying.
- Vets study for about five years or more at university and learn about many different kinds of animal.
- Many old Greek books survived only because of those Arabic copies, which were later turned into Latin and reached Europe's universities.
- The doctor Ibn Sina, known in Europe as Avicenna, wrote a great medical encyclopedia that European universities used for hundreds of years.
- The internet began in 1969 by linking a few computers in American universities and grew into a worldwide network.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «university» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.