university
An institution of higher education that provides facilities for teaching, research, and the conferral of academic degrees across undergraduate, graduate, and often professional levels.
Noun 1 meaning
An institution of higher education that provides facilities for teaching, research, and the conferral of academic degrees across undergraduate, graduate, and often professional levels.
“She's studying mathematics at university.”
Etymology
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 (“whole, entire”).
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UNIVERSITY at a glance
UNIVERSITY has 10 letters and scores 16 points in Scrabble (U 1 + N 1 + I 1 + V 4 + E 1 + R 1 + S 1 + I 1 + T 1 + Y 4) and 18 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #383 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with university
All rhymes- CITY9
- COMMUNITY18
- SECURITY13
- QUALITY19
- ABILITY12
- OPPORTUNITY18
- MAJORITY20
- REALITY10
- ACTIVITY16
- AUTHORITY15
- RESPONSIBILITY21
- CAPACITY17
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