university
//junɪˈvɜːsəti//
Forms
- Plural
- universities
Definitions
1.An institution of higher education that provides facilities for teaching, research, and the conferral of academic degrees across undergraduate, graduate, and often professional levels.
- The only reason why I haven't gone to university is because I can't afford it.
- She's studying mathematics at university.
- The NIAID supports projects at universities and research organizations around the United States as well as a network of 21 NIAID labs across the country.
Frequency
Overall
Very common· #359
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Very common
- Academic
- Common
- Literature
- Rare
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Word family
Etymology
From Middle English universite (“institution of higher learning, body of persons constituting a university”) from Anglo-Norman université, from Old French universitei, from Medieval Latin stem of universitas, in juridical and Late Latin "a number of persons associated into one body, a society, company, community, guild, corporation, etc"; in Latin, "the whole, aggregate," from universus (“whole, entire”).