Definition of Collegiate

1. Adjective. Of or resembling or typical of a college or college students. "Collegiate clothes"

Exact synonyms: Collegial
Derivative terms: College, College, College
Partainyms: College, College

Definition of Collegiate

1. a. Of or pertaining to a college; as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society.

2. n. A member of a college.

Definition of Collegiate

1. Adjective. Of, or relating to a college, or college students. ¹

2. Adjective. Collegial. ¹

3. Noun. (obsolete) A member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education. ¹

4. Noun. (obsolete) A fellow-collegian; a colleague. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Collegiate

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Collegiate

collegelike
collegemate
collegemates
colleger
collegers
colleges
collegewide
collegey
collegia
collegial
collegialities
collegiality
collegially
collegian
collegians
collegiate (current term)
collegiate church
collegiate churches
collegiate dictionary
collegiately
collegiates
collegium
collegiums
collegue
collembolan
collembolans
collembolous
collenchyma
collenchymas
collenchymatous

Literary usage of Collegiate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North (1916)
"HE Slaught, University of Chicago) caters precisely to this large class of persons interested in collegiate mathematics. The Monthly contains book reviews, ..."

2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1899)
"1381 John resigned the prebend of Langley in the collegiate church of Lanchester, Durham (Cal. Pat. Rail*, 1381-5, p. 47 18 Oct. 1383 he was granted the ..."

3. The Care of Books: An Essay on the Development of Libraries and Their by John Willis Clark (1901)
"THE FITTINGS OF MONASTIC LIBRARIES AND OF collegiate LIBRARIES PROBABLY IDENTICAL. ... The collegiate system was in no sense monastic, indeed it was to a ..."

4. The Memorial History of the City of New York: From Its First Settlement to by James Grant Wilson (1893)
"1891- Next after Trinity, the collegiate Church is the wealthiest religious corporation or institution in New-York. It is estimated to be worth between ..."

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