college
part of speech
noun (a college, colleges; college, uncountable)
meaning for a pupil
1) A place of education after school, where people study for qualifications or a trade. tree →
2) (US) University; going to college means studying for a degree. tree →
3) (UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ) A school for students after age 16, or the name of some secondary schools. tree →
4) One of the parts that make up some universities, such as Oxford or Cambridge. tree →
5) An organised group of professional people (the College of Surgeons). tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life: going to college, college fees, a college degree. Meanings differ by country: US college = university; UK college often = further education after 16. In maths problems: college costs, numbers of students.
examples
- My sister is at college studying art. tree →
- He wants to go to college to become a teacher. tree →
- The college has 3000 students. tree →
- She applied to three colleges. tree →
- In the UK, many teenagers go to college after their exams at sixteen. tree →
- The college library is open late. tree →
- The merchant was a learned man, for his father had sent him to college, and he had passed his examination. tree →
note
Without «the» for study in general: go to college, be at college. Different meanings in the US and UK — check the setting. Not the same as «collage» (a picture made from pieces).
In the corpora
- Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Dodgson, a mathematics teacher at Christ Church college in Oxford.
- In a study reported from Stanford, college basketball players who slept longer for several weeks shot free throws more accurately.
- A candidate needs 270 of the 538 Electoral College votes to become US president.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «college» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.