Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or held to resemble a college.
  • adjective Of, for, or typical of college students.
  • adjective Of or relating to a collegiate church.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or of the nature of a college, or an organized body of men having certain common pursuits or duties: as, collegiate societies. Hooker. See college
  • Pertaining to a college within a university, or to a college which forms an independent institution for higher learning; furnished by or pursued in a college: as, collegiate life; collegiate education. See college, 2.
  • Constituted after the manner of or connected with a college in any sense: as, collegiate masterships in a university.
  • Collected; combined; united. Bacon.
  • In Scotland, a church or congregation the active pastor of which is the colleague and successor of the emeritus pastor.
  • In the United States, a corporate church having several houses of worship, with coordinate pastors.
  • noun A member of a college or university.
  • noun Same as collegian, 2.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to a college.
  • adjective An association of churches, possessing common revenues and administered under the joint pastorate of several ministers
  • noun A member of a college.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of, or relating to a college, or college students.
  • adjective Collegial.
  • noun obsolete A member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education.
  • noun obsolete A fellow-collegian; a colleague.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or resembling or typical of a college or college students

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English collegiat, from Late Latin collēgiātus, from Latin collēgium, association; see collegium.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Medieval Latin collegiatus ("colleague"), from collegium ("community, group")

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Examples

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  • The Cavs made Charlotte look rather collegiate from the start, racing to a 12-point lead in the opening minutes as James drove to the basket at will.

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  • The expression was unlike anything ever seen in collegiate or pro sports.

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  • "For the most part there's a lot of mistrust in collegiate athletics."

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  • "He was a great scorer in collegiate hockey," Burns said.

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  • Fatalities were relatively common in collegiate football until President Theodore Roosevelt — the epitome of the upper-class manly man — tried to instill some restraint.

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  • Fatalities were relatively common in collegiate football until President Theodore Roosevelt — the epitome of the upper-class manly man — tried to instill some restraint.

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  • With an introduction from John Hodgman about the cash cow industry of satire, McSweeney’s aims its new book at the intellectual crowd as jokes and humor are procured at the expense of classic works and authors revered in collegiate halls.

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