college English · revision 3682

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 1378 (Wycliffe)|origins=la collēga}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: UK /ˈkɒl.ɪdʒ/, US /ˈkɑː.lɪdʒ/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|enm|college]], [[bor|fro|college|t=collegiate body]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(SOED 2002) a learned borrowing from [[la|collēgium|t=fellowship, community, guild]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) from [[m|la|collēga|t=partner in office]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(COED 2004) formed from [[m|la|com-|t=with, together]] and the stem of [[m|la|legāre|t=to choose, depute]],^(Etymonline) which Etymonline traces to [[ine-pro|*leg-|t=to collect, gather]].^(Etymonline) Klein instead connects it with [[m|la|lēx|t=law]], explaining it as “a union formed by law”.^(Klein 1966) It is related to [[colleague]].^(Barnhart 1988)^(COED 2004)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ An organized body of persons with common functions and rights,^(Etymonline)^(SOED 2002) especially a body of scholars and students within a university, as at Oxford and Cambridge: probably about 1378, in the writings of Wycliffe.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ At first any corporate group could be a ''college'', a sense kept in the ''electoral college'' and the ''college of cardinals''.^(Etymonline) The buildings of a college are so called from 1379.^(HTOED) The meaning “institution of higher education” appeared in 1563.^(Barnhart 1988) In Scotland, and later in the United States and Canada, where a university might have only one college, the word came to mean an incorporated institution of the highest grade, and about 1800 any institution granting degrees.^(Etymonline) A prison was a ''college'' in slang from 1699.^(HTOED) ''Collegiate'' is from 1514.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1378 – a body of scholars within a university (Wycliffe).^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1379 – the building of a college.^(HTOED)

+ * 1514 – ''collegiate''.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1563 – an institution of higher education.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1699 – slang, a prison.^(HTOED)

+ * c. 1800 – any degree-granting institution.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An institution of higher learning granting the [[bachelor's degree]].^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # A school or division of a [[university]] offering instruction in a particular field.^(AHD)

+ # A school offering specialized or technical instruction.^(AHD)^(SOED 2002)

+ # In Britain, one of the self-governing bodies that make up some universities, such as Oxford and Cambridge.^(SOED 2002)^(Etymonline)

+ # An organized body of people with common duties and privileges: ''the electoral college''.^(AHD)^(SOED 2002)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[intercollege]]

+ * [[postcollege]]

+ * [[precollege]]

+ * [[subcollege]]

+ * [[Benedict College]]

+ * [[College of Cardinals]]

+ * [[College Park]]

+ * [[College Station]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[collegiate]]

+ * [[collegiate church]]

+ * [[collegium]]

+ * [[colleague]]

+ * [[collegial]]

+ * [[legate]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}