university

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. college, school, academy, seminary, institute, institution [of higher learning]; campus, U (sl.).

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(Roget's IV) modif.

Syn. professional, advanced, graduate, college, collegiate, undergraduate, freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, learned, academic, educational.

n.

Syn. college, educational institution, institution of higher learning, multiversity, megaversity, normal school, state university, provincial university; see also academy , college , school 1 .

Famous universities of the world include: Paris (Sorbonne), Oxford, Cambridge, Padua, Bologna, Brussels, Halle, Zurich, Basle, Goettingen, London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Oslo, Leipzig, Vienna, Upsala, Lund, Copenhagen, Berlin, Heidelberg, Moscow, Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Kazan, Kiev, Charles (in Prague), Peking, Toronto, McGill, Melbourne, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, Tufts, Duke, Stanford, Columbia, Chicago, California, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Rutgers, Notre Dame, Vassar, Wesleyan, Wellesley, Purdue, Pitt, Rice, Texas A&M, Georgetown, Auburn, Bryn Mawr, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), California Institute of Technology (CIT).

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(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

institution of higher learning, graduate school, college. ''A place of light, of liberty, and of learning.''—Benjamin Disraeli. ''A thought-control center.''—Joan Tepperman. ''Sophistry and affectation.''— Francis Bacon. see college