university

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  1. noun An institution for higher learning with teaching and research facilities constituting a graduate school and professional schools that award master's degrees and doctorates and an undergraduate division that awards bachelor's degrees.
  2. noun The buildings and grounds of such an institution.
  3. noun The body of students and faculty of such an institution.

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  • If we compare Reality with a university, where a university is a place for dissemination and acquisition of pragmatic knowledge, we can not deny that fools as well as wise fellows attend a given university.
  • And obviously being back here and what she's accomplished in her career and for the university is to be admired. —  newsobserver.com blogs
  • As long as the university is an appendage of the athletic / entertainment sector on campus, this will be case. —  PopPolitics.com
  • Most of the dispute centers around pay but the professors say the university is also cutting health insurance benefits. —  WWMT.com : News
  • Rodney Monroe, and with President Eugene Trani having announced plans to retire next June a year ahead of schedule, it's a safe bet that the university will be a more compliant neighbor in the future. —  Richmond.com - Main
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  1. Middle English universite, from Old French, from Medieval Latin ūniversitās, from Latin, the whole, a corporate body, from ūniversus, whole; see universe.

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  1. from Middle English universite, from Old French universite, French université = Spanish universidad = Portuguese universidade = Italian università = Dutch universiteit = German universität = Danish Swedish universitet = Russian universitetŭ, from Latin universita(t-)s, the whole, the universe, Late Latin a society, company, corporation, gild, Middle Latin a university, from universus, all together, whole, entire, collective, general: see universe.
 

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