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say it: KAH-lij
college is a noun meaning "the body of faculty and students of a college". It is pronounced /ˈkɑlɪdʒ/ — KAH-lij. It carries 3 recorded senses.
an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university
a complex of buildings in which an institution of higher education is housed
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for college come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.