colleges
- 1Plural of college.
Several local colleges share a single library system.
The two colleges merged their engineering programs last fall.
Note
A regular plural with a regional puzzle inside it: what is being counted depends on where you are. In the US these are undergraduate institutions. In Canada they offer vocational training or associate's degrees, and in Ireland and the Philippines they are simply universities. In the UK the word may count self-contained divisions of one university, or schools of further education at sixth-form level. So "three colleges" can mean very different things.
colleges is a form of college
college, noun: An institution of higher education where students study for a degree; in the US, Ireland and the Philippines also used of any university, as in 'go to college'. Full entry
- Forms
- collegecolleges plural
- Spelling
- college → colleges: add -s
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