1. university /yoo͞″nə-vûr′sĭ-tē//yoo͞″nə-vûr′sĭ-tē/

    noun

    1. An institution for higher learning with teaching and research facilities typically including a graduate school and professional schools that award master's degrees and doctorates and an undergraduate division that awards bachelor's degrees.
    2. The buildings and grounds of such an institution.
    3. The body of students and faculty of such an institution.

    noun

    1. An institution for higher learning with teaching and research facilities typically including a graduate school and professional schools that award master's degrees and doctorates and an undergraduate division that awards bachelor's degrees.
    2. The buildings and grounds of such an institution.
    3. The body of students and faculty of such an institution.
    4. The universe; the whole.
    5. An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having and acquiring property.
    6. An institution organized and incorporated for the purpose of imparting instruction, examining students, and otherwise promoting education in the higher branches of literature, science, art, etc., empowered to confer degrees in the several arts and faculties, as in theology, law, medicine, music, etc. A university may exist without having any college connected with it, or it may consist of but one college, or it may comprise an assemblage of colleges established in any place, with professors for instructing students in the sciences and other branches of learning. In modern usage, a university is expected to have both an undergraduate division, granting bachelor's degrees, and a graduate division, granting master's or doctoral degrees, but there are some exceptions. In addition, a modern university typically also supports research by its faculty.
    7. Institution of higher education (typically accepting students from the age of about 17 or 18, depending on country, but in some exceptional cases able to take younger students) where subjects are studied and researched in depth and degrees are offered.
    8. The body of faculty and students at a university.
    9. Establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching.
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  2. merriam-webster.com

    The meaning of UNIVERSITY is an institution of higher learning providing facilities for teaching and research and authorized to grant academic degrees; specifically : one made up of an undergraduate division which confers bachelor's degrees and a graduate division which comprises a graduate school and professional schools each of which may confer master's degrees and doctorates.
  3. britannica.com

    4 days agoUniversity, institution of higher education, usually comprising a college of liberal arts and sciences and graduate and professional schools and having the authority to confer degrees in various fields of study. Learn more about the history of universities in this article.
    Author:The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  4. britannica.com

    A university is an institution of higher education, usually comprising a college of liberal arts and sciences and graduate and professional schools and having the authority to confer degrees in various fields of study. A university differs from a college in that it is usually larger, has a broader curriculum, and offers graduate and professional degrees in addition to undergraduate degrees.
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    A university is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. University is derived from the Latin phrase universitas magistrorum et scholarium, which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. The first universities in Europe were established by Catholic monks. The University of Bologna, Italy, which was founded in 1088, is the first university in the sense of:

    • being a high degree-awarding institute.…
    • using the word universitas.…
    • having independence from the ecclesiastic schools and issuing secular as well as non-secular degrees: grammar, rhetoric, logic, theology, canon law and notarial law.…
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