collegian

UK /kəˈliː.dʒən/ US /kəˈliː.dʒən/
noun 2adj 1

Definitions

noun

1

A student (or a former student) of a college

She then remembered that her own early bearing towards him had been haughty, and indifferent; that she had sneered at the young collegian's shyness; and now thought with "the late remorse of love," how unlike to this had been Ethel's gentle kindness.

2

An inmate of a prison.

While it [the wind] roared through the steeple of St George’s Church, and twirled all the cowls in the neighbourhood, it made a swoop to beat the Southwark smoke into the jail; and, plunging down the chimneys of the few early collegians who were yet lighting their fires, half suffocated them.

adj

1

Of or relating to a college or its students.

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