Meaning of university in English

university

noun [ C ]

/ˌjuː.nɪˈvɜː.sə.ti/ us

/ˌjuː.nəˈvɝː.sə.t̬i/

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a place where people study for an undergraduate (= first) or postgraduate (= higher level) degree:

Which university did you go to/were you at (= did you study at)?

She teaches at the University of Connecticut.

I graduated from Liverpool University in 2012.

a university campus/degree/professor

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She was rejected the first time she applied to the university, but when she reapplied the following year she was accepted.
Researchers at universities are always complaining about lack of funds.
You usually need three A levels to get into university.
She's going to study law at university.
The majority of the employees have university degrees.

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(Definition of university from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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university

noun [ C/U ]

/ˌju·nəˈvɜr·sɪ·t̬i/

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a place of higher education usually for people who have finished twelve years of schooling and where they can obtain more knowledge and skills, and get a degree to recognize this:

[ U ] a university campus/professor

[ C ] She applied to six universities and was accepted by three.

(Definition of university from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of university

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The second, by a remarkable collection of photographs, some from the university archives and other sources and some specifically produced for the book.

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Ultimately the genre survives in the twenty-first century primarily in our university choruses and local choral societies.

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The preface tells us that the book is intended to back up a second-year university course, presumably in stratigraphy as defined by the author.

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The lower level would be taught at institutes attached to the provincial universities.

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The rules at the university where he taught that student barred his giving her a grade before she had finished her paper.

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It is worth bearing in mind, however, that their subjects were university students.

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The university's participants occasionally suggested that the creation of an international university in the liberal mode was not their ultimate goal.

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They visited the laboratory in a university psychology department, along with their children, who took part in another, unrelated study.

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What are the interests of the producers of technology (industry, universities)?

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Two groups of 27 university students, differing in the exposure to explicit instruction, followed a computer-controlled self-study course in an artificial language.

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The rest of the exam involved free translation and composition, based on set texts decided upon by the university.

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This article should be compulsory reading for anyone who is proposing to work in a conservatoire or university department of music.

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A university of 20 000 students based on this infrastructure could provide new forms of employment and access to badly needed housing to modern standards.

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What do you think is the role of a statistics department in a business school as opposed to a statistics department elsewhere in the university?

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She might advise younger writers, prepare revised editions of her books, lecture at university campuses, and so forth.

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accredited university

Such licensure usually requires an accredited university degree, successful completion of exams, and a training period.

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autonomous university

That must be dependent on an autonomous university sector.

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comprehensive university

Today, it has transformed into a comprehensive university offering various undergraduate and graduate courses.

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