College

Definition

college /'kɒlÇdʒ/ n ၁။ [C, U] ေကာလိပ္ေက်ာင္း။ a college of further education (ie providing education and training for people over 16) ❍ the Royal College of Art ❍ a secretarial college ❍ Our son is going to college (ie starting a course of study at a university or a college) next year. ❍ She's at (ie studying at) college. ❍ SCHOOL ၂။ [C] (က) (ၿဗိတိန္တြင္) တကၠသိုလ္လက္ေအာက္ရိွ သီးျခား ေကာလိပ္ေက်ာင္း။ the Oxford and Cambridge colleges ❍ New College, Oxford. (ခ) (အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စုတြင္) တကၠသိုလ္လက္ေအာက္ရိွ ဥပစာတန္းအထိသာ သင္ၾကားေပးေသာ ေကာလိပ္ေက်ာင္း။ ၃။ [C, U] ေကာလိပ္အေဆာက္အအံု။ Are you living in college? ❍ a college chapel. ၄။ [C] ( esp Brit ) ေက်ာင္း(အမည္)။ Eton College ❍ a sixth-form college. ၅။ [C] အတတ္ပညာရွင္မ်ား အစုအဖြဲ႕။ the Royal College of Surgeons ❍ the College of Cardinals (ie as a group, when electing or advising the Pope).

Examples

1. He teaches cookery at the local college.
2. I’ve just started a college course.
3. [be at college] : She’s at secretarial college.
4. [go to college] : Paul’s going to college in September.
5. Art/agricultural college
6. The Royal College of Music
7. King’s College
8. Cambridge
9. The whole college was talking about it.
10. The Royal College of Nursing
11. Eton College