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The universe; the whole.

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  1. n. The universe; the whole.
  2. n. An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having and acquiring property.
  3. 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.
  4. n. the body of faculty and students at a university
  5. n. establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching
  6. n. a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees
  7. n:100 n. the body of faculty and students at a university n. establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching n. a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees