English noun: university |
| 1. | university (group) the body of faculty and students at a university |
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| Broader (hypernym) | body |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | gown, varsity |
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| Part meronym | academe, academia |
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| Member holonym | grad school, graduate school |
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| 2. | university (artifact) establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching |
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| Broader (hypernym) | establishment |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | city university, Oxbridge, redbrick university |
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| Instance hyponym | Brown, Brown University, Cambridge, Cambridge University, Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia, Columbia University, Cooper Union, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Cornell University, Duke University, Harvard, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, Ohio State University, Oxford, Oxford University, Paris University, Penn, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Princeton University, Sorbonne, Stanford, Stanford University, Sussex University, University of California at Berkeley, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Nebraska, University of North Carolina, University of Paris, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh, University of Sussex, University of Texas, University of Vermont, University of Washington, University of West Virginia, University of Wisconsin, Yale, Yale University |
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| Domain category members | red-brick, redbrick |
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| 3. | university (group) a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees |
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| Broader (hypernym) | educational institution |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | multiversity, Open University |
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| Member holonym | college |
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