Collegiate

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kəˈliːdÊ’iÉ™t/

Origin

From Medieval Latin collegiatus ("colleague"), from collegium ("community, group")

Full definition of collegiate

Adjective

1. Of, or relating to a college, or college students.
2. Collegial.

Derived terms

• collegiate church
• collegiately

Noun

1. (obsolete) A member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education.
2. (obsolete) A fellow-collegian; a colleague.
• 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.2.4:those tables of artificial sines and tangents, not long since set out by mine old collegiate, good friend, and late fellow-student of Christ Church in Oxford, Mr. Edmund Gunter ....----