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# university

«university» in Mova's school dictionary: **A place of higher learning where people study for degrees…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a university, universities)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A place of higher learning where people study for degrees after school and where research is done. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/university/#m1)

2) The people (students and teachers) who belong to it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/university/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life: older brothers, sisters or parents go to university; in the USA people often say «college». In stories, a professor works at a university. Phrases: «go to university» (UK), «at university», «university student».

### examples

- My sister is going to university to study medicine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/university/#x1)
- The university has a huge library. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/university/#x2)
- Dad works as a cleaner at the university. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/university/#x3)
- She is the first in her family to go to university. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/university/#x4)
- The university museum has dinosaur bones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/university/#x5)
- A university year often has two or three terms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/university/#x6)
- Throughout their lives they remained close friends, and both studied law at Marburg University. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/university/#x7)

### note

Takes «a», not «an», because it starts with a «you» sound: «a university». Plural universities (y → ies). UK: «go to university» with no «the»; US: «go to college». Capital letter in a name: Harvard University.

### In the corpora

- [Copying rules get stricter as you get older, and universities can punish AI copying.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/9-the-essay-the-teacher-spotted/18/)
- [Vets study for about five years or more at university and learn about many different kinds of animal.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/15/)
- [Many old Greek books survived only because of those Arabic copies, which were later turned into Latin and reached Europe's universities.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/22-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world/3/)
- [The doctor Ibn Sina, known in Europe as Avicenna, wrote a great medical encyclopedia that European universities used for hundreds of years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/22-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world/11/)
- [The internet began in 1969 by linking a few computers in American universities and grew into a worldwide network.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/36-computers-and-the-internet/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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