Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)An institution of higher education that provides facilities for teaching, research, and the conferral of academic degrees across undergraduate, graduate, and often professional levels.

    She's studying mathematics at university.

    The only reason why I haven't gone to university is because I can't afford it.

    Universität, Hochschule, Uni

    университе́тuniversitét

    університе́тuniversytét

    establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching

  2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)The entirety of a group; all members of a class.

Examples

1271 sentences
  1. Which university do you want to go to?

    В який університет ти хочеш поступати?

    ruВ какой университет хочешь поступать?

    deAn welche Universität willst du gehen?

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  2. Some students in this university don't even know how to talk to teachers.

    Деякі студенти в цьому університеті навіть не знають як говорити з учителями.

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  3. More than 40 percent of the students go to university.

    Більше 40 процентів студентів відвідують університет.

    deMehr als 40 % der Studenten gehen auf eine Universität.

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  4. Harvard is a wonderful university.

    Гарвард — чудовий університет.

    ruГарвард - замечательный университет.

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  5. I'm teaching at a university.

    Я викладаю в університеті.

    ruЯ преподаю в университете.

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Translations

9 languages
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institution of higher education:
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institution of higher education:
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Origin

From Middle English universite (“institution of higher learning, body of persons constitut

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”). By surface analysis, universe + -ity.

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