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# college

«college» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A place of education after school, where people study for…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a college, colleges; college, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A place of education after school, where people study for qualifications or a trade. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/college/#m1)

2) (US) University; going to college means studying for a degree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/college/#m2)

3) (UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ) A school for students after age 16, or the name of some secondary schools. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/college/#m3)

4) One of the parts that make up some universities, such as Oxford or Cambridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/college/#m4)

5) An organised group of professional people (the College of Surgeons). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/college/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life: going to college, college fees, a college degree. Meanings differ by country: US college = university; UK college often = further education after 16. In maths problems: college costs, numbers of students.

### examples

- Published by the Dropsie College Philadelphia Pa. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/college/#x1)
- My sister is at college studying art. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/college/#x2)
- He wants to go to college to become a teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/college/#x3)
- The college has 3000 students. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/college/#x4)
- She applied to three colleges. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/college/#x5)
- In the UK, many teenagers go to college after their exams at sixteen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/college/#x6)
- The college library is open late. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/college/#x7)
- The merchant was a learned man, for his father had sent him to college, and he had passed his examination. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/college/#x8)

### note

Without «the» for study in general: go to college, be at college. Different meanings in the US and UK — check the setting. Not the same as «collage» (a picture made from pieces).

### In the corpora

- [Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Dodgson, a mathematics teacher at Christ Church college in Oxford.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/81-alice-s-victorian-world-tea-croquet-pocket-watches-shillings-and-chimney-sweeps/6/)
- [In a study reported from Stanford, college basketball players who slept longer for several weeks shot free throws more accurately.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well/11/)
- [A candidate needs 270 of the 538 Electoral College votes to become US president.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/2-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «college» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/college/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.