Other forms: universities
A university is the place where adults study for a degree. Go to university, university term, a university lecturer.
British usage says at university with no article — she is at university — where American says in college, and the difference catches everybody out. Bologna, founded in 1088, is usually called the oldest continuously operating one. Note that the Latin universitas meant a corporation or guild of people, so a university was originally a body of scholars rather than a place.
1noununiversityAn institution where adults study for a degree.
“My brother is studying engineering at university.”
university is an educational institution.
Also accepted in games: uni, college
Medieval Latin universitas meant a guild or corporation of people. A university was a body of masters and students before it was a set of buildings.
Old French
universitei
Anglo-Norman
université
Middle English
universite — institution of higher learning, body of persons constituting a university
English, today
university
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From Middle English universite (“institution of higher learning, body of persons constituting a university”) from Anglo-Norman université, from Old French universitei, from Medieval Latin - stem of universitas, in juridical and Latin - "a number of persons associated into one body, a society, company, community, guild, corporation, etc"; in Latin -, "the whole, aggregate," from universus (“whole, entire”). by surface analysis, universe + -ity.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA