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collegian

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /kəˈliː.dʒən/

adj

Etymology: From Middle English collegian, from Medieval Latin collēgiānus.

  1. Of or relating to a college or its students.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English collegian, from Medieval Latin collēgiānus.

  1. A student (or a former student) of a college

    She then remembered that her own early bearing towards him had been haughty, and indifferent; that she had sneered at the young collegian's shyness; and now thought with "the late remorse of love," how unlike to this had been Ethel's gentle kindness.

  2. An inmate of a prison.

    While it [the wind] roared through the steeple of St George’s Church, and twirled all the cowls in the neighbourhood, it made a swoop to beat the Southwark smoke into the jail; and, plunging down the chimneys of the few early collegians who were yet lighting their fires, half suffocated them.