university > define

noun

• The body of faculty and students at a university.
• Establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching.
• A large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees. .

• (n.) An association, society, guild or corporation, especially one capable of having and acquiring property.
• (n.) The universe; the whole.
• (n.) An institution organized and incorporated for the purpose of imparting instruction, examining students, and otherwise promoting education in the higher branches of literature, science, art, etc., empowered to confer degrees in the several arts and faculties, as in theology, law, medicine, music, etc. A university may exist without having any college connected with it or it may consist of but one college or it may comprise an assemblage of colleges established in any place, with professors for instructing students in the sciences and other branches of learning.