Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for university. Search instead for YouPorn University.
Definitions

university

[yoo-nuh-vur-si-tee] / ˌju nəˈvɜr sɪ ti /
NOUN
institution of higher education
Synonyms


NOUN
educational institution
Synonyms


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

The university operates the Planetary Virtual Observatory Laboratory, a website that collects ground-based images of solar system planets submitted by observers around the world.

From Science Daily Sep. 3, 2026

At the university, shelves groan with jagged pieces of spines, necks and legs that to an untrained eye resemble battered stones.

From Barron's Sep. 3, 2026

Shared governance is the system in which faculty and administrators share authority over how a university is run.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2026

Earlier, New South Wales Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon had described Tuesday's killing of Marco Tapia, a university student who was only known to police over a traffic offence, as "completely unacceptable".

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

He passed the entrance examination for the university in 1588, then had to complete a final year at Maulbronn before he could take up his place at the university, at the age of 17.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

In response, some schools have cut back on programs aimed at helping minority students, even relatively benign initiatives like special orientation events, and Black and Latino enrollment at top universities has fallen.

From Slate Sep. 3, 2026

The benefit saves many universities millions of dollars every year.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2026

“Open models let startups, businesses, universities and public institutions build on advanced capabilities without training every model from scratch,” the company said.

From MarketWatch Sep. 3, 2026

An international team of researchers, working closely with scientists at the universities of Zurich and Greifswald, has developed and validated a diagnostic scoring system designed to identify Takotsubo syndrome before cardiac catheterization is performed.

From Science Daily Sep. 2, 2026

Sometimes Jack wrote articles about the weather and the plants and animals, and e-mailed them to science magazines and universities, and sometimes people e-mailed him questions to answer.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr




Vocabulary lists containing university


Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Join 12,000,000 vocabulary learners

Start learning new words today on VocabTrainer.
You'll remember them forever.

Start training