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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 Late 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”).
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /juːnɪˈvɜːsəti/
- (General American) IPA(key): /junɪˈvɚsəti/, /junɪˈvɚsɪti/
- Hyphenation: u‧ni‧ver‧si‧ty
university (countable and uncountable, plural universities)
- Institution of higher education (typically accepting students from the age of about 17 or 18, depending on country, but in some exceptional cases able to take younger students) where subjects are studied and researched in depth and degrees are offered.
She's studying mathematics at university.
The only reason why I haven't gone to university is because I can't afford it.
1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond[1]:
During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]
2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
2021, Harvey P. Weingarten, “Is Going to University Worth It?”, in Nothing Less than Great: Reforming Canada’s Universities, Toronto, Ont., Buffalo, N.Y., London: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 23:
The most compelling stories of whether university is worth it are examples where a university education lifts the economic standing of a poor or disadvantaged student to a higher socioeconomic position.
- (obsolete) The entirety of a group; all members of a class.
1841, George Borrow, The Zincali - Or, An Account of the Gypsies of Spain:
[I]t appears a pity to banish the women and children. But to this can be opposed that holy act of your Majesty which expelled the Moriscos, and the children of the Moriscos, for the reason given in the royal edict. Whenever any detestable crime is committed by any university, it is well to punish all.
- In western Europe, and later the United States, universities were typically founded by executive act (e.g. royal charter) and were generally relatively large (compared to colleges), offering postgraduate degrees in addition to undergraduate degrees. In other countries, this distinction is not made and any degree-granting institution is called a university.
- In the United States, Ireland, and the Philippines, students will sometimes say that they go to "the university" or to "a university", but they are far more likely to say they are going "to college", even if the institution they attend is a university. In the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and most other English-speaking countries, students go "to university (or uni)", without the article, if they are attending a school that grants bachelor's or postgraduate degrees.
- → Tokelauan: Iunivehite
institution of higher education
- Afrikaans: universiteit (af)
- Albanian: fakulltet m, universitet (sq) m
- Amharic: ዩኒቨርሲቲ (yunivärsiti)
- Arabic: جَامِعَة (ar) f (jāmiʕa)
- Aragonese: universidat f
- Armenian: համալսարան (hy) (hamalsaran)
- Aromanian: univirsitati f
- Assamese: বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (bissobiiddaloy)
- Asturian: universidá (ast) f
- Azerbaijani: universitet, danişgah (South Azerbaijani), darülfünun (archaic)
- Basque: unibertsitate (eu)
- Belarusian: універсітэ́т m (univjersitét), унівэрсытэ́т m (universytét) (Taraškievica)
- Bengali: বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (bn) (biśśobiddaloẏ), জামেয়া (bn) (jameẏa)
- Breton: skol-veur (br) f
- Bulgarian: университе́т m (universitét)
- Burmese: တက္ကသိုလ် (my) (takka.suil)
- Catalan: universitat (ca) f
- Chamorro: unibetsedåt
- Chechen: университет (universitet), говзарт (govzart) (archaic)
- Chinese:
- Cornish: pennskol f, universita m
- Corsican: università (co) f
- Crimean Tatar: universitet, darulfunun (obsolete)
- Czech: univerzita (cs) f, vysoká škola (cs) f, vysoké učení n
- Danish: universitet (da) n
- Dutch: universiteit (nl) f, (used attributively) universitair (nl), unief (nl) f
- Esperanto: universitato (eo)
- Estonian: ülikool (et)
- Faroese: fróðskaparsetur n, universitet n
- Finnish: yliopisto (fi)
- French: université (fr) f, fac (fr) f, univ (fr) f
- Friulian: please add this translation if you can
- Fula:
- Adlam: 𞤶𞤢𞥄𞤩𞤭 𞤸𞤢𞥄𞤪𞤼𞤭𞤣𞤫,
- Roman: jaaɓi haartide
- Galician: universidade (gl) f
- Georgian: უნივერსიტეტი (ka) (universiṭeṭi)
- German: Universität (de) f, Hochschule (de) f, Uni (de) f
- Gilaki: دانشگا (dânišgâ)
- Greek: πανεπιστήμιο (el) n (panepistímio)
- Ancient: please add this translation if you can
- Greenlandic: ilisimatusarfik, universiteti
- Guaraní: mbo'ehao guasu
- Gujarati: યુનિવર્સિટી (yunivarsiṭī)
- Haitian Creole: inivèsite
- Hausa: jami'a
- Hawaiian: kulanui
- Hebrew: אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה (he) f (univérsita)
- Hindi: विश्वविद्यालय (hi) m (viśvavidyālay), यूनिवर्सिटी (hi) f (yūnivarsiṭī), महाविद्यालय (hi) m (mahāvidyālay), विद्यापीठ m (vidyāpīṭh)
- Hungarian: egyetem (hu), tudományegyetem (hu)
- Icelandic: háskóli (is) m
- Ido: universitato (io)
- Indonesian: universitas (id), universitet (id) (archaic)
- Ingrian: universitetta, ylioppi
- Interlingua: universitate
- Irish: ollscoil (ga)
- Italian: università (it) f, accademia (it) f, istituto (it) m, politecnico (it) m, collegio (it) m, ateneo (it) m
- Japanese: 大学 (ja) (だいがく daigaku), 大学校 (ja)
- Jeju: 대ᄒᆞᆨ교 (daehawkgyo)
- Kalmyk: ик сурһуль (ik surğulʹ)
- Kannada: ವಿಶ್ವವಿದ್ಯಾನಿಲಯ (kn) (viśvavidyānilaya), ಕಲಿವೀಡು (kn) (kalivīḍu)
- Kazakh: университет (kk) (universitet)
- Khmer: សាកលវិទ្យាល័យ (km) (saakɑlvɨttyiəlay), មហាវិទ្យាល័យ (km) (mɔɔhaavɨtyiəlay)
- Korean: (College) 대학(大學) (ko) (daehak), (University) 대학교(大學校) (ko) (daehakgyo)
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: университет (ky) (universitet)
- Ladino: universita
- Lao: ມະຫາວິທະຍາໄລ (lo) (ma hā wi tha nyā lai)
- Latin: universitas f, studium generale n
- Latvian: universitāte f, augstskola f
- Lithuanian: universitetas (lt) m
- Lü: please add this translation if you can
- Luxembourgish: Universitéit (lb) f
- Macedonian: универзите́т (mk) m (univerzitét)
- Malay: universiti (ms), menara gading, madrasah jamiah
- Malayalam: സർവ്വകലാശാല (ml) (saṟvvakalāśāla), യൂനിവേഴ്സിറ്റി (yūnivēḻsiṟṟi), യൂണിവേഴ്സിറ്റി (yūṇivēḻsiṟṟi)
- Maltese: università (mt) f
- Manchu: ᠠᠮᠪᠠ
ᡨᠠᠴᡳᡴᡡ (amba tacikū) - Manx: please add this translation if you can
- Marathi: विद्यापीठ (vidyāpīṭh), युनिव्हर्सिटी f (yunivharsiṭī)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: их сургууль (ix surguulʹ)
- Norman: euniversitaé f (Guernsey), unnivèrsité f (Jersey)
- Northern Sami: universitehtta
- Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: universitet (no) n
- Nynorsk: universitet n
- Occitan: universitat (oc) f
- Pashto: پوهنتون (ps) m (pohantun)
- Persian: دانِشْگاه (fa) (dânešgâh), پوهَنْتُون (pôhantûn) (Dari, also)
- Polish: uniwersytet (pl) m, wszechnica (pl) f, uczelnia (pl) f
- Portuguese: universidade (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਯੂਨੀਵਰਸਿਟੀ (pa) (yūnīvrasiṭī)
- Quechua: jatun yachay wasi
- Romanian: universitate (ro) f
- Romansch: please add this translation if you can
- Russian: университе́т (ru) m (universitét)
- Rwanda-Rundi: kaminuza class 9/10
- Scots: varsitie
- Scottish Gaelic: oilthigh m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: универзѝте̄т m, свеу̀чилӣште n
- Roman: univerzìtēt (sh) m, sveùčilīšte (sh) n
- Shan: ႁူင်းႁဵၼ်းၸၼ်ႉၸွမ် (húung háen tsâ̰n tsǎum), ၸၼ်ႉၸွမ် (tsâ̰n tsǎum), တၵ်ႈၵသူဝ်ႇ (tāk kǎ sò), တၵ်ႉၵသူဝ်ႇ (tâ̰k kǎ sò)
- Sicilian: univirsitati (scn) f, univirsità (scn) f
- Sindhi: ڪاليج
- Sinhalese: විශ්ව විද්යාලය (wiśwa widyālaya), විශ්වවිද්යාල (si) (wiśwawidyāla)
- Slovak: univerzita (sk) f
- Slovene: univerza (sl) f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: uniwersita f
- Upper Sorbian: uniwersita f
- Sotho: yunibesiti
- Spanish: universidad (es) f
- Swabian: Universidäd
- Swahili: chuo kikuu (sw)
- Swedish: universitet (sv) n, högskola (sv)
- Tagalog: pamantasan (tl), unibersidad (tl)
- Tajik: донишгоҳ (tg) (donišgoh)
- Tamil: பல்கலைக்கழகம் (ta) (palkalaikkaḻakam)
- Tatar: университет (uniwersitet)
- Telugu: విశ్వవిద్యాలయము (te) (viśvavidyālayamu)
- Thai: มหาวิทยาลัย (th) (má-hǎa-wít-tá-yaa-lai)
- Tibetan: སློབ་གྲྭ་ཆེན་མོ (slob grwa chen mo)
- Tok Pisin: yunivesiti
- Turkish: üniversite (tr), darülfünun (tr)
- Turkmen: uniwersitet
- Ukrainian: університе́т (uk) m (universytét)
- Urdu: جامِعَہ f (jāmi'a), دارُ الْعُلُوم m (dārul-'ulūm), دانِش گاہ f (dāniś gāh), یُونِیوَرْسِٹی f (yūnīvarsiṭī), دار الفنون (dār-ul-funūn)
- Uyghur: ئۇنىۋېرسىتېت (uniwërsitët), داشۆ (dashö), ئالىي مەكتەپ (aliy mektep)
- Uzbek: universitet (uz)
- Vietnamese: trường đại học (vi) (場大學), đại học (vi) (大學)
- Volapük: niver (vo)
- Walloon: univiersité (wa) f
- Warray: yunibersidad, unibersidad
- Welsh: prifysgol (cy) f
- West Frisian: universiteit c
- Western Panjabi: یونیورسٹی (pnb) (yvneyorsṭī)
- Yiddish: אוניווערסיטעט f (universitet)
- Yoruba: yunifásítì, ifásítì, fásítì
- Zhuang: dayoz
- university on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
From Middle English universite, from Medieval Latin universitas.
university (plural universities)