university
An institution of higher education that provides facilities for teaching, research,…An institution of higher education that provides facilities for teaching, research, and the conferral of academic degrees across undergraduate, graduate, and often professional levels.
» Which university do you want to go to?
An welche Universität willst du gehen?
An welcher Universität wollen Sie studieren?
В какой университет хочешь поступать?
В який університет ти хочеш поступати?
Meaning
2 senses(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
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)The entirety of a group; all members of a class.
Examples
1271 sentencesWhich university do you want to go to?
В який університет ти хочеш поступати?
ruВ какой университет хочешь поступать?
deAn welche Universität willst du gehen?
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.
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.
Harvard is a wonderful university.
Гарвард — чудовий університет.
ruГарвард - замечательный университет.
I'm teaching at a university.
Я викладаю в університеті.
ruЯ преподаю в университете.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English universite (“institution of higher learning, body of persons constitutFrom 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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Forms
plural: universities| Singular | university |
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Synonyms
5 synonymsWord family
30 related wordsLessons for this word
2 lessons- B1School and university — Because the lesson uses it
- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
12 patterns- a university student
- university student
- is a university
- at a university
- the same university
- a university in
- a university professor
- at the university
- into the university
- university professor
- same university
- our university has