college: [14] College comes from the same source as colleague. Latin collēga, literally ‘one chosen to work with another’, a compound based on the stem of lēgāre ‘choose’. An ‘association of collēgae, partnership’ was thus a collēgium, whence (possibly via Old French college) English college. For many hundreds of years this concept of a ‘corporate group’ was the main semantic feature of the word, and it was not really until the 19th century that, via the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge universities, the notion of ‘academic institution’ overtook it. => colleague, delegate, legal, legitimate
college (n.)
"body of scholars and students within a university," late 14c., from Old French college "collegiate body" (14c.), from Latin collegium "community, society, guild," literally "association of collegae" (see colleague). At first meaning any corporate group, the sense of "academic institution" attested from 1560s became the principal sense in 19c. via use at Oxford and Cambridge.
双语例句
1. I've had the hots for him ever since he came to college.
自从他来上大学后，我就对他春心萌动。
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2. We were in the same college, which was male-only at that time.
我们那时在同一所学院，当时只招男生。
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3. The teacher training college put up a plaque to the college's founder.
那所教师培训学院为该学院的创立者立了一块纪念牌匾。
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4. Faculty members complain that their students are unprepared to do college-level work.
学院的老师们抱怨说他们的学生还很不适应大学的课业。
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5. Novello says college students will spend $4.2 billion yearly on alcoholic beverages.