university

Meaning

Noun

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

Related

Similar words

• academy
• college
• institute
• uni
• varsity

Narrower meaning words

• plate-glass university
• technical university
• technological university
• university of technology

Broader meaning words

• school
• institution

Origin

• From Middle English universite ("institution of higher learning, body of persons constituting a university") from Anglo-Norman université, from Old French universitei, from Medieval Latin stem of universitas, in juridical and Late Latin "A number of persons associated into one body, a society, company, community, guild, corporation, etc"; in Latin, "the whole, aggregate," from universus.