university

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun the body of faculty and students at a university
  2. noun establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching
  3. noun a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees

Etymology

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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