| Noun | 1. | college - the body of faculty and students of a collegebody - a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity; "the whole body filed out of the auditorium" college - an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a university business college - a school for teaching the clerical aspects of business and commerce junior college - a college that offers only the first two years terminating in an associate degree training college - a school providing training for a special field or profession | |
| 2. | college - an institution of higher education created to educate and grant degrees; often a part of a universitycollege - the body of faculty and students of a college university - a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees | |
| 3. | college - British slang for prisonprison, prison house - a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment | |
| 4. | college - a complex of buildings in which a college is housed | |