Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The principal team representing a university, college, or school in sports, games, or other competitions.
- noun Chiefly British A university.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A reduction of univarsity for university: used in English universities, and affected to some extent in American colleges.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Brit. Colloquial contraction of
university . - noun the team with the best players of a school or club, being the main representative of the organization in competitive play between schools or organizations. In schools, contrasted with
junior varsity . Also used attributively, .
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- noun
university
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a team representing a college or university
- noun a British abbreviation of `university'; usually refers to Oxford University or Cambridge University
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The contest between Dean and Gephardt is what I call the varsity contest for first place.
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I have to wonder if one reason that Iowa has such a high percentage of HS participation in varsity sports is because the average school size is smaller with all the small towns.
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In HuffPost Hill's opinion, the video would have been much more effective had it been cast as a 50s sci-fi/horror movie trailer (footage of clean-cut jocks in varsity jackets driving their 57 Chevys away from some oncoming terror, cutting away to a pretty girl in a poodle skirt and a bowtie in her hair to answer the phone and hear the words "THE ARAB-AMERICANS ARE COMING FROM INSIDE YOUR HOUSE," etc).
HUFFPOST HILL - OCTOBER 4TH, 2010 The Huffington Post News Editors 2010
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PITTSBURGH (AP) - The Carolina Panthers proved something during a long night that featured almost no starters and plenty of not-so-good football: Their junior varsity is better than that of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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Walker had competed in varsity athletics in Kentucky as a freshman before transferring to North College Hill and enrolling as an eighth-grader.
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Three-letter man in varsity athletics in high school and college.
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In high school he participated in varsity basketball and baseball and sang in the boy's chorus and quartet.
Johnson, Harlod E. 1977
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A chance to be on the floor with the varsity was his burning desire.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inside Basketball Jack Canfield 2009
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A chance to be on the floor with the varsity was his burning desire.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inside Basketball Jack Canfield 2009
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I have what one would call a varsity team, JV, and C team.
¿Wanna help? 2008
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