college

noun

• 1an educational institution or establishment, in particular:
• one providing higher education or specialized professional or vocational training:colleges of further education I’m at college, studying graphic design
• (in Britain) any of the independent institutions into which certain universities are separated, each having its own teaching staff, students, and buildings: the Oxford colleges [in names]:Trinity College, Cambridge
• British a private secondary school: [in names]:Eton College
• US a university offering a limited curriculum or teaching only to a bachelor’s degree: [in names]:Harvard College
• the teaching staff and students of a college considered collectively:the college was shocked by his death

• 2an organized group of professional people with particular aims, duties, and privileges: [in names]:the Royal College of Physicians