collegian
noun
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Pronunciation: /kəˈliː.dʒən/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English collegian, from Medieval Latin collēgiānus.
- Of or relating to a college or its students.
noun
Etymology: From Middle English collegian, from Medieval Latin collēgiānus.
- 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.”
- 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.”