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UK [ˈkɒlɪdʒ] / US [ˈkɑlɪdʒ] noun
Word forms "college":
singular college plural colleges

Differences between British and American English: college:

In the UK, a college usually means a place where students over the age of 16 are trained in a particular subject or skill, earning a qualification that is not usually an academic degree. People studying for an academic degree go to a university. In the US, a college is a place where students can earn a bachelor's degree (=first degree), and a university offers both bachelor's degrees and advanced degrees.

1) [countable/uncountable] in the UK, a place that gives students qualifications below the level of a university degree, often in the skills they need to do a particular job

He teaches cookery at the local college.

I've just started a college course.

be at college (= be studying at college):

She's at secretarial college.

go to college:

Paul's going to college in September.

a) [countable/uncountable] in the UK, a place that gives students degrees in a particular subject

art/agricultural college

the Royal College of Music

b) [countable/uncountable] in the US, a place that gives students degrees

c) [countable] one of the parts that some universities are divided into

King's College, Cambridge

d) [singular] all the students and teachers in a college

The whole college was talking about it.

2) [countable] used in the names of some organizations whose members belong to a particular profession, especially a medical profession

the Royal College of Nursing

3) College used in the names of some British private schools

Eton College