community college
[ C or U ]
a place for specialized education after the age of 16 or 18, where people study and train to get technical skills or knowledge for a particular type of job:
a teacher training college师范学院
a secretarial college文秘专科学校
a Naval college海军学校
at collegeShe's at art college.她在艺术学院学习。
[ C or U ]
one of the separate and named parts into which some universities are divided: （大学的）学院，分院
King's College, Cambridge剑桥大学国王学院
Students must rank the colleges in order of preference when applying for admission to UC San Diego.
Cambridge has some very fine old colleges (= college buildings).剑桥大学有一些非常优美古雅的学院大楼。
in collegeUKI lived in college in my first year.
[ C ]US(usuallyCollege)(also mainlyUKSchool)
a part of a university where you study for a degree in a particular subject area:
college ofShe is the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at New York University.
The College of Medicine will be located permanently in the new building.
He is a dean of the University of Texas at Austin's College of Engineering.
A2[ C or U ]UK
a place for education between the ages of 16 and 18:
a sixth form college预科学校
After my GCSEs I want to go to college for my A levels.
[ C ](usuallyCollege)
in Britain and Australia, used in the names of some schools for children, especially private schools (= where education is paid for by parents): 公学，学校（用于英国和澳大利亚某些私立学校的名称）
Cheltenham Ladies' College切尔滕纳姆女子公学
We were taught painting and drawing at art college.我们在美术学院学过绘画和素描。
In our third year at college everyone had to do a special project.大学三年级时，每个人必须做一项专题研究。
Many colleges and universities now offer modular degree courses.许多学院和大学现在提供模块化的学位课程。
She lectures in education at the teacher training college.
I studied modern European history at college.我在大学里学的是欧洲现代史。

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University & college education
academe
academia
anti-university
beadle
business school
go up
grad
graduate
hall
Oxbridge
Oxon
Panhellenic
pass degree
poly
the groves of academeidiom
uni
university
unselective
vice chancellor
warden

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Types of school

collegenoun (GROUP)

[ C ]UK(usuallyCollege)
a group of people with a particular job, purpose, duty, or power who are organized into a group for sharing ideas, making decisions, etc.: 学会，社团，协会
the Royal College of Medicine/Nursing皇家医科／护理学会

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Organizations, Societies & clubs
Assn
Assoc.
co-op
collegium
cooperative
establishment
fellowship
host
lodge
membership
organization
secret society
semi-public
shuffle
sub-organization
subchapter
subcommission
superclub
trust
youth club

college | American Dictionary

college
noun[ C ]
us/ˈkɑl·ɪdʒ/
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
A college is also one of the separate parts into which some universities are divided:
She graduated from the university’s College of Business Management.

Examples of college

college
There were also dinners with several other masters of colleges.
A re-examination of some historical themes, notably that concerning the establishment of colleges when information for the entire country becomes available, may supply an answer.
Now we have a mixture of education services, music services, arts centres, music teaching agencies, colleges and professional development services.
The worst of the teaching offered in theological colleges occurs because the staff are few and the ground to be covered enormous.
He wanted to keep the church schools and the church colleges for the training of teachers despite the large sums of money which this needed.
In fact the further education colleges did a mass of other work, including school-type courses.
His previous concern as to competition amongst peers has also been dispelled, and he appears happy with life at the college's self-catering hall of residence.
The education offered in the colleges was free to the consumer.
The approach outlined here, although innovative, is not unique; similar schemes are in operation in a number of universities and colleges.
Instrumental teaching in schools, colleges and universities is still predominantly based upon the one-to-one single weekly lesson.
The medical colleges and hospitals were rigidly controlled by the funding agency (state government or municipal corporation), which had the final say in all matters.
With the subtraction performed, we are left with approximately 125 million in schools and six million in colleges, the latter also being the lowest estimate.
The same was true of institutes and colleges of higher education.
The intake to initial teacher training in the colleges was 30,000 in 1975.
By the 1890s the provincial colleges had their specialisms.
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Collocations withcollege

college

These are words often used in combination with college.

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accredited college
The school is a regionally accredited college and seminary.
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