University

Noun

 * 1) Institution of higher education (typically accepting students from the age of about 17 or 18, depending on country, but in some cases able to take younger students in exceptional cases) where subjects are studied and researched in depth and degrees are offered.

Synonyms

 * uni
 * academy
 * institute
 * college

Hypernyms

 * school
 * institution

Derived terms

 * university of technology
 * technical university
 * technological university

Related terms

 * universal
 * universe

Adjectives for University
studious; sedate; splendid; great; well-rounded; theological; significant; national; state.

Thesaurus
academe, academia, academic, alma mater, classroom, college, college of engineering, collegiate, community college, degree-granting institution, extramural, four-year college, graduate school, institute of technology, interscholastic, intramural, ivied halls, journalism school, junior college, law school, medical school, multiversity, normal, normal school, postgraduate school, preschool, scholastic, school, school of communications, school of education, two-year college, university college, varsity

Etymology
, "institution of higher learning," "body of persons constituting a university," from  université:, from  universitei:, from  stem of universitas:, in juridical and  "A number of persons associated into one body, a society, company, community, guild, corporation, etc.," in, "the whole, aggregate," from universus:

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri:
 * Belarusian: універсітэт
 * Bengali: বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: skol-veur
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: universitat
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Min Nan:
 * Croatian: ,
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 * Galician:
 * Georgian: უნივერსიტეტი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic:
 * Guaraní: mbo'ehao guasu
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: विश्वविद्यालय, यूनिवर्सिटी, महाविद्यालय
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: universitato
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: universitate
 * Irish:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: (大學),
 * Kurdish: zanko, zanîngeh , ,
 * Latin: ,
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: universiti, menara gading
 * Maltese: università
 * Norwegian:
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 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: oilthigh
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: универзитет, свеучилиште
 * Roman: univerzitet, sveučilište
 * Sinhalese: විශ්ව විද්‍යාලය
 * Slovak:
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 * Spanish:
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 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pamantasan
 * Tajik: донишгоҳ
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: університет
 * Urdu: جامعہ, یونیورسٹی
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük: niver
 * Welsh: