[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

college \col"lege\, n. f. coll`ege, l. collegium, fr. collega
   colleague. see colleague.
   1. a collection, body, or society of persons engaged in
      common pursuits, or having common duties and interests,
      and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges;
      as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college
      of bishops.
      1913 webster

            the college of the cardinals.         --shak.
      1913 webster

            then they made colleges of sufferers; persons who,
            to secure their inheritance in the world to come,
            did cut off all their portion in this. --jer.
                                                  taylor.
      1913 webster

   2. a society of scholars or friends of learning, incorporated
      for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of
      knowledge; as, the colleges of oxford and cambridge
      universities, and many american colleges.
      1913 webster

   note: in france and some other parts of continental europe,
         college is used to include schools occupied with
         rudimentary studies, and receiving children as pupils.
         1913 webster

   3. a building, or number of buildings, used by a college.
      "the gate of trinity college." --macaulay.
      1913 webster

   4. fig.: a community. r.
      1913 webster

            thick as the college of the bees in may. --dryden.
      1913 webster

   college of justice, a term applied in scotland to the
      supreme civil courts and their principal officers.

   the sacred college, the college or cardinals at rome.
      1913 webster
see also:
colleague college of justice the sacred college 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

college
     n 1: the body of faculty and students of a college
     2: an institution of higher education created to educate and
        grant degrees; often a part of a university
     3: british slang for prison
     4: a complex of buildings in which a college is housed

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

69 moby thesaurus words for "college":
   bund, rochdale cooperative, academe, academia, alliance,
   alma mater, assemblage, association, axis, band, bloc, body,
   caboose, can, chokey, coalition, college of engineering,
   combination, combine, common market, community college,
   confederacy, confederation, consumer cooperative, cooperative,
   cooperative society, corps, council, credit union, customs union,
   degree-granting institution, economic community, federation,
   four-year college, free trade area, gang, graduate school, group,
   grouping, hoosegow, institute of technology, ivied halls,
   journalism school, jug, junior college, law school, league, lockup,
   machine, medical school, mob, multiversity, normal, normal school,
   partnership, political machine, postgraduate school, prison, ring,
   rock pile, school of communications, school of education, society,
   stir, two-year college, union, university, university college,
   varsity

[4] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

college
   heb. mishneh 2 kings 22:14; 2 chr. 34:22, rendered in revised
   version "second quarter", the residence of the prophetess
   huldah. the authorized version followed the jewish commentators,
   who, following the targum, gave the hebrew word its
   post-biblical sense, as if it meant a place of instruction. it
   properly means the "second," and may therefore denote the lower
   city acra, which was built after the portion of the city on
   mount zion, and was enclosed by a second wall.
   

[5] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

college. a civil corporation, society or company, authorized by law, having 
in general a literary object. in some countries by college is understood the 
union of certain voters in one body; such bodies are called electoral 
colleges; as, the college of electors or their deputies to the diet of 
ratisbon; the college of cardinals. the term is used in the united states; 
as, the college of electors of president and vice-president, of the united 
states. act of congress of january 23, 1845. 

[6] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

college, ak cdp, fips 16750
  location: 64.86954 n, 147.82340 w
  population 1990: 11249 4255 housing units
  area: 41.2 sq km land, 0.9 sq km water

[7] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

college, ak -- u.s. census designated place in alaska
   population 2000:    11402
   housing units 2000: 4501
   land area 2000:     18.670178 sq. miles 48.355536 sq. km
   water area 2000:    0.407168 sq. miles 1.054561 sq. km
   total area 2000:    19.077346 sq. miles 49.410097 sq. km
   fips code:            16750
   located within:       alaska ak, fips 02
   location:             64.848302 n, 147.827194 w
   zip codes 1990:    
   note: some zip codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   headwords:
    college, ak
    college

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