university - Definition | Dictionary definition of university

Definition of university

Nouns

the body of faculty and students at a university

Types:: gown
the members of a university as distinguished from the other residents of the town in which the university is located; varsity
a British abbreviation of `university'; usually refers to Oxford University or Cambridge University

Type of:: body
a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity

establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching

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a university in Rhode Island; Cambridge University
a university in England; Carnegie Mellon University
an engineering university in Pittsburgh; Columbia University
a university in New York City; Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
university founded in 1859 by Peter Cooper to offer free courses in the arts and sciences; Cornell University
a university in Ithaca, New York; Duke University
a university in Durham, North Carolina; Harvard University
a university in Massachusetts; Johns Hopkins
a university in Baltimore; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
an engineering university in Cambridge; Ohio State University
a university in Columbus, Ohio; Oxford University
a university in England; University of Paris
a university in Paris; intellectual center of France; Princeton University
a university in New Jersey; Stanford University
a university in California; University of California at Berkeley
a university in Berkeley, California; University of Chicago
a university in Chicago, Illinois; University of Michigan
a university in Ann Arbor, Michigan; University of Nebraska
a university in Lincoln, Nebraska; University of North Carolina
a university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; University of Pennsylvania
a university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; University of Pittsburgh
a university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; University of Sussex
a red-brick university in Brighton, England; University of Texas
a university in Austin, Texas; University of Vermont
a university in Burlington, Vermont; University of Washington
a university in Seattle, Washington; University of West Virginia
a university in Morgantown, West Virginia; University of Wisconsin
a university in Madison, Wisconsin; Yale University
a university in Connecticut

Types:: city university
an urban university in a large city; Oxbridge
general term for an ancient and prestigious and privileged university (especially Oxford University or Cambridge University); redbrick university
(British informal) a provincial British university of relatively recent founding; distinguished from Oxford University and Cambridge University

Type of:: establishment
a public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence

a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees

Types:: multiversity
a university system having several separate campuses and colleges and research centers; Open University
a British university that is open to people without formal academic qualifications and where teaching is by correspondence or broadcasting or summer school