university
nounAn institution for higher learning with teaching and research facilities typically including a graduate school and professional schools that award master’s degrees and doctorates and an undergraduate division that awards bachelor’s degrees.
nounThe buildings and grounds of such an institution.
nounThe body of students and faculty of such an institution.
nounThe whole; the universe.
nounA corporation; a gild.
nounAn association of men for the purpose of study, which confers degrees which are acknowledged as valid throughout Christendom, is endowed, and is privileged by the state in order that the people may receive intellectual guidance, and that the theoretical problems which present themselves in the development of civilization may be resolved.
nounThe universe; the whole.
nounAn association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having and acquiring property.
nounAn institution organized and incorporated for the purpose of imparting instruction, examining students, and otherwise promoting education in the higher branches of literature, science, art, etc., empowered to confer degrees in the several arts and faculties, as in theology, law, medicine, music, etc. A university may exist without having any college connected with it, or it may consist of but one college, or it may comprise an assemblage of colleges established in any place, with professors for instructing students in the sciences and other branches of learning. In modern usage, a university is expected to have both an undergraduate division, granting bachelor’s degrees, and a graduate division, granting master’s or doctoral degrees, but there are some exceptions. In addition, a modern university typically also supports research by its faculty.
nounInstitution of