<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an institution of higher learning, especially one providing a general or liberal arts education rather than technical or professional training.</li><li>a constituent unit of a university, furnishing courses of instruction in the liberal arts and sciences, usually leading to a bachelor's degree.</li><li>an institution for vocational, technical, or professional instruction, as in medicine, pharmacy, agriculture, or music, often a part of a university.</li><li>an endowed, self-governing association of scholars incorporated within a university, as at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England.</li><li>a similar corporation outside a university.</li><li>the building or buildings occupied by an institution of higher education.</li><li>the administrators, faculty, and students of a college.</li><li>(in Britain and Canada) a private secondary school.</li><li>an organized association of persons having certain powers and rights, and performing certain duties or engaged in a particular pursuit: The Electoral College formally selects the president.</li><li>a company; assemblage.</li><li>Also called collegium.</li><li>a body of clergy living together on a foundation for religious service or similar activity.</li><li>British Slang: a prison.</li></ul>