university
English Thesaurus
1. establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching (noun.artifact)
hypernym | : | establishment, |
definition | : | a public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence (noun.artifact) |
hyponym | : | city university, |
definition | : | an urban university in a large city (noun.artifact) |
hyponym | : | oxbridge, |
definition | : | general term for an ancient and prestigious and privileged university (especially Oxford University or Cambridge University) (noun.artifact) |
hyponym | : | redbrick university, |
definition | : | (British informal) a provincial British university of relatively recent founding; distinguished from Oxford University and Cambridge University (noun.artifact) |
instance hyponym | : | brown, brown university, |
definition | : | a university in Rhode Island (noun.artifact) |
instance hyponym | : | cambridge, cambridge university, |
definition | : | a university in England (noun.artifact) |
instance hyponym | : | carnegie mellon university, |
definition | : | an engineering university in Pittsburgh (noun.artifact) |
instance hyponym | : | columbia, columbia university, |
definition | : | a university in New York City (noun.artifact) |
instance hyponym | : | cooper union, cooper union for the advancement of science and art, |
definition | : | university founded in 1859 by Peter Cooper to offer free courses in the arts and sciences (noun.artifact) |
instance hyponym | : | cornell university, |
definition | : | a university in Ithaca, New York (noun.artifact) |
instance hyponym | : | duke university, |
definition | : | a university in Durham, North Carolina (noun.artifact) |
instance hyponym | : | harvard, harvard university, |
definition | : | a university in Massachusetts (noun.artifact) |
instance hyponym | : | johns hopkins, |
definition | : | a university in Baltimore (noun.artifact) |
instance hyponym | : | massachusetts institute of technology, mit, |
definition | : | an engineering university in Cambridge (noun.artifact) |
instance hyponym | : | ohio state university, |
definition | : | a university in Columbus, Ohio (noun.artifact) |
instance hyponym | : | oxford, oxford university, |
definition | : | a university in England (noun.artifact) |
instance hyponym | : | paris university, sorbonne, university of paris, |
definition | : | a university in Paris; intellectual center of France (noun.artifact) |
instance hyponym | : | princeton, princeton university, |
definition | : | a university in New Jersey (noun.artifact) |
instance hyponym | : | stanford, stanford university, |
definition | : | a university in California (noun.artifact) |
instance hyponym | : | university of california at berkeley, |
definition | : | a university in Berkeley, California (noun.artifact) |
instance hyponym | : | university of chicago, |
definition | : | a university in Chicago, Illinois (noun.artifact) |
instance hyponym | : | university of michigan, |
definition | : | a university in Ann Arbor, Michigan (noun.artifact) |
instance hyponym | : | university of nebraska, |
definition | : | a university in Lincoln, Nebraska (noun.artifact) |
instance hyponym | : | university of north carolina, |
definition | : | a university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (noun.artifact) |
instance hyponym | : | penn, pennsylvania, university of pennsylvania, |
definition | : | a university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (noun.artifact) |
instance hyponym | : | university of pittsburgh, |
definition | : | a university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (noun.artifact) |
instance hyponym | : | sussex university, university of sussex, |
definition | : | a red-brick university in Brighton, England (noun.artifact) |
instance hyponym | : | university of texas, |
definition | : | a university in Austin, Texas (noun.artifact) |
instance hyponym | : | university of vermont, |
definition | : | a university in Burlington, Vermont (noun.artifact) |
instance hyponym | : | university of washington, |
definition | : | a university in Seattle, Washington (noun.artifact) |
instance hyponym | : | university of west virginia, |
definition | : | a university in Morgantown, West Virginia (noun.artifact) |
instance hyponym | : | university of wisconsin, |
definition | : | a university in Madison, Wisconsin (noun.artifact) |
instance hyponym | : | yale, yale university, |
definition | : | a university in Connecticut (noun.artifact) |
2. the body of faculty and students at a university (noun.group)
hypernym | : | body, |
definition | : | a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity (noun.group) |
hyponym | : | gown, |
definition | : | the members of a university as distinguished from the other residents of the town in which the university is located (noun.group) |
hyponym | : | varsity, |
definition | : | a British abbreviation of `university'; usually refers to Oxford University or Cambridge University (noun.group) |
member holonym | : | grad school, graduate school, |
definition | : | a school in a university offering study leading to degrees beyond the bachelor's degree (noun.group) |
3. a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees (noun.group)
hypernym | : | educational institution, |
definition | : | an institution dedicated to education (noun.group) |
hyponym | : | multiversity, |
definition | : | a university system having several separate campuses and colleges and research centers (noun.group) |
hyponym | : | open university, |
definition | : | a British university that is open to people without formal academic qualifications and where teaching is by correspondence or broadcasting or summer school (noun.group) |
member holonym | : | college, |
definition | : | an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university (noun.group) |
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