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UNIVERSITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("university" is a kind of...):
establishment (a public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence)
Domain member category:
red-brick; redbrick (of or relating to British universities founded in the late 19th century or the 20th century)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "university"):
redbrick university ((British informal) a provincial British university of relatively recent founding; distinguished from Oxford University and Cambridge University)
city university (an urban university in a large city)
Oxbridge (general term for an ancient and prestigious and privileged university (especially Oxford University or Cambridge University))
Instance hyponyms:
University of California at Berkeley (a university in Berkeley, California)
University of Chicago (a university in Chicago, Illinois)
University of Michigan (a university in Ann Arbor, Michigan)
University of Nebraska (a university in Lincoln, Nebraska)
University of North Carolina (a university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
Penn; Pennsylvania; University of Pennsylvania (a university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
University of Pittsburgh (a university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
Sussex University; University of Sussex (a red-brick university in Brighton, England)
University of Texas (a university in Austin, Texas)
University of Vermont (a university in Burlington, Vermont)
University of Washington (a university in Seattle, Washington)
University of West Virginia (a university in Morgantown, West Virginia)
University of Wisconsin (a university in Madison, Wisconsin)
Yale; Yale University (a university in Connecticut)
Brown; Brown University (a university in Rhode Island)
Cambridge; Cambridge University (a university in England)
Carnegie Mellon University (an engineering university in Pittsburgh)
Columbia; Columbia University (a university in New York City)
Cooper Union; Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (university founded in 1859 by Peter Cooper to offer free courses in the arts and sciences)
Cornell University (a university in Ithaca, New York)
Duke University (a university in Durham, North Carolina)
Harvard; Harvard University (a university in Massachusetts)
Johns Hopkins (a university in Baltimore)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; MIT (an engineering university in Cambridge)
Ohio State University (a university in Columbus, Ohio)
Oxford; Oxford University (a university in England)
Paris University; Sorbonne; University of Paris (a university in Paris; intellectual center of France)
Princeton; Princeton University (a university in New Jersey)
Stanford; Stanford University (a university in California)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The body of faculty and students at a university
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("university" is a kind of...):
body (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity)
Meronyms (members of "university"):
grad school; graduate school (a school in a university offering study leading to degrees beyond the bachelor's degree)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "university"):
gown (the members of a university as distinguished from the other residents of the town in which the university is located)
varsity (a British abbreviation of 'university'; usually refers to Oxford University or Cambridge University)
Holonyms ("university" is a part of...):
academe; academia (the academic world)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("university" is a kind of...):
educational institution (an institution dedicated to education)
Meronyms (members of "university"):
college (an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "university"):
multiversity (a university system having several separate campuses and colleges and research centers)
Open University (a British university that is open to people without formal academic qualifications and where teaching is by correspondence or broadcasting or summer school)
Context examples:
The research group led by Yoichiro Yamamoto and Go Kimura, in collaboration with a number of university hospitals in Japan, adopted an approach called "unsupervised learning."
(Artificial Intelligence Identifies Features Associated with Cancer Recurrence, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
"Two-thirds of all drugs, including those used for chemotherapy, target proteins found on cell membranes," said Mahmoud Moradi, a biochemist at the university.
(Study shows limitations of method for determining protein structure, National Science Foundation)
“These … extend to those like the young and healthy university students. And that we find significant effects on the way they think - their cognitive functions.”
(Hot Dorm Rooms Could Affect Students' Memory, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)
University of Alaska glaciologist Martin Truffer and colleagues pointed to a number of factors in their 2013 study.
(Retreat of Yakutat Glacier, NASA)
The Extramural Research Program supports the work of scientists in universities, teaching hospitals, and other organizations outside NCI.
(Extramural Research Program, NCI Thesaurus)
The Plains Elevated Convection at Night (PECAN) field campaign will involve scientists, students and support staff from eight research laboratories and 14 universities.
(Scientists tackle mystery of thunderstorms that strike at night, NSF)
The study was based on a three-year mapping effort conducted by an international team of scientists affiliated with the Ocean Cleanup Foundation, six universities and an aerial sensor company.
(Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch Growing Rapidly, Study Finds, VOA)
Nearly 80 percent of AHRQ's budget is awarded as grants and contracts to researchers at universities and other research institutions across the country.
(Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, NCI Thesaurus)
On the strength of it he won the Mathematical Chair at one of our smaller universities, and had, to all appearances, a most brilliant career before him.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A hospital that is not affiliated with a university.
(Non-Academic Hospital, NCI Thesaurus)
