university
/junɪˈvɝsəti/ noun A2- 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.
Plural universities
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It was already dark when we reached the old university city.
Now I am aware that he is not only one of the heads of the medical school of the university, but a thinker of European reputation in more than one branch of science.
In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army.
Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society; the greatest part of his life having been spent under the guidance of an illiterate and miserly father; and though he belonged to one of the universities, he had merely kept the necessary terms without forming at it any useful acquaintance.
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