Noun | 1. | university - the body of faculty and students at a university |
2. | university - establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching | |
3. | university - a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees |
UNIVERSITY. The name given to certain societies or corporations which are seminaries of learning where youth are sent to finish their education. Among the civilians by this term is understood a corporation.
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