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• a college of further education (= providing education and training for people over 16)
• a secretarial college
• the royal college of art
• a college course/library/student

college

1. (in Britain) a place where students go to study or to receive training after they have left school
• see also community college (1)
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/community-college
• a college of further education (= providing education and training for people over 16)
• a secretarial college
• the Royal College of Art
• a college course/library/student
• She's at college.
2. (in the US) a university where students can study for a degree after they have left school
• see also community college (2)
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/community-college
• Carleton College
• a college campus/student
• a private college
• He got interested in politics when he was in college.
• She's away at college in California.
• He's hoping to go to college next year.
3. a place where you can study for higher or more specialist qualifications after you finish high school
• My son has gone away to college.
• ‘Where did you go to college?’
• ‘Ohio State University.’
• My daughter is at university
• I didn’t want to go to a large university
4. one of the separate institutions that some British universities, such as Oxford and Cambridge, are divided into
• See related entries: Higher education institutions
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/higher_education_institutions/college_2
• King’s College, Cambridge
• a tour of Oxford colleges
• Most students live in college.
5. (in the US) one of the main divisions of some large universities
• See related entries: Higher education institutions
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/higher_education_institutions/college_2
• The history department is part of the College of Arts and Sciences.
6. the teachers and/or students of a college
• See related entries: Higher education institutions
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/higher_education_institutions/college_2
7. a secondary school, especially one where you must pay
• See related entries: Teaching and learning
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/teaching_and_learning/college_1
• Eton College
8. an organized group of professional people with special interests, duties or powers
• see also electoral college
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/electoral-college
• the Royal College of Physicians
• the American College of Cardiology

Extra Examples

• I got interested in politics when I was at college.
• Not all the lecturers are in college at any one time.
• She’s at college in Swindon.
• The college graduated 50 students last year.
• The college runs a course for would-be arts administrators.
• a college of education
• college graduation exercises
• the college staff= all the people who work there apart from those who teach
• the college staff= all the people who work there
• A college of cardinals will choose the next pope.
• New guidelines have been released by the Royal College of Surgeons.
• The whole college was shocked to hear the news.
• When I left school I went to secretarial college.

Word Origin

• late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin collegium ‘partnership’, from collega ‘partner in office’, from col- ‘together with’ + legare ‘depute’.