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- noun Plural form of
colleger .
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Examples
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And the collegers were the scholarship boys, the ones who had got in on their brains and had their fees paid, and they lived right there at the school.
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It also had two kinds of scholars, namely, seventy called king's scholars or "collegers," who are maintained gratuitously, sleep in the college, and wear a peculiar dress; and another class -- the majority -- called "oppidans," who live in the town.
The Grand Old Man Richard B. Cook
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All others (high school grads, some-collegers, and college grads) voted for Bush.
American Coastopia! 2004
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But the people who were in Orwell's group, Connally and Anthony Pole, who later became a very distinguished novelist, they were collegers.
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And Orwell was -- also there were -- there were collegers and there were oppidans.
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The collegers of recent years have done very fair work and carried off many distinctions at Cambridge.
The Grand Old Man Cook, Richard B 1989
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The student was now safe from the ordeal of examinations, and that the higher classes, including ten senior collegers and ten senior oppidans, contained some of the very worst scholars.
The Grand Old Man Cook, Richard B 1989
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The collegers, however, were required to pass some kind of examination, in accordance with which their place on the list for the King's college was fixed.
The Grand Old Man Cook, Richard B 1989
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"Long chamber" is long enough to contain nearly the whole of the collegers, or boys on the foundation, whose complement I conjecture to be about seventy.
Confessions of an Etonian I. E. M.
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In front of him he sees a couple of little collegers, to hold aside the skirts of his coat.
Confessions of an Etonian I. E. M.
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