Meaning of college In English

• 0 a university where you can study for an undergraduate (= first) degree:

  • I met my husband when we were in college.

  • They want their kids to go to (= study at) college.

  • a college student/professor/graduate

  • a teacher training college

  • a secretarial college

  • a Naval college

  • She's at art college.

  • UK a sixth form college

  • King's College, Cambridge

  • I attended the College of Arts and Sciences at New York University.

  • Cambridge has some very fine old colleges (= college buildings).

  • Cheltenham Ladies' College

• 1 a group of people with a particular job, purpose, duty, or power who are organized into a group for sharing ideas, making decisions, etc.:

  • the Royal College of Medicine/Nursing

• 2 a place of higher education usually for people who have finished twelve years of schooling and where they can obtain more advanced knowledge and get a degree to recognize this

  • She graduated from the university’s College of Business Management.