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say it: yoo-nuh-VUR-suh-tee
university is a noun meaning "the body of faculty and students at a university". It is pronounced /ˌjunəˈvɝsəti/ — yoo-nuh-VUR-suh-tee. It carries 3 recorded senses.
establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching
a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees
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 university 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.