College
A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops.
A society of scholars or friends of learning, incorporated for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of knowledge; as, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and many American colleges.
A building, or number of buildings, used by a college.
Fig.: A community.
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College Quotations
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Mark Twain
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Maya Angelou
Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.
Ronald Reagan
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Theodore Roosevelt
If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.
Barack Obama
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Helen Keller
College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
Robert Frost
When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
Will Rogers
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
Carl Sagan
Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
Woodrow Wilson
College Translations
college in Afrikaans is kollege
college in Dutch is college
college in French is college
college in German is Internat
college in Hungarian is egyetem
college in Italian is collegio, collegio
college in Portuguese is faculdade
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