College Definition–noun | 1. | an institution of higher learning, esp. one providing a general or liberal arts education rather than technical or professional training. Compare university. |
| 2. | a constituent unit of a university, furnishing courses of instruction in the liberal arts and sciences, usually leading to a bachelor's degree. |
| 3. | an institutio
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n for vocational, technical, or professional instruction, as in medicine, pharmacy, agriculture, or music, often a part of a university. |
| 4. | an endowed, self-governing association of scholars incorporated within a university, as at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England. |
| 5. | a similar corporation outside a university. |
| 6. | the building or buildings occupied by an institution of higher education. |
| 7. | the administrators, faculty, and students of a college. |
| 8. | (in Britain and Canada) a private secondary school. |
| 9. | an organized association of persons having certain powers and rights, and performing certain duties or engaged in a particular pursuit: The electoral college formally selects the president. |
| 10. | a company; assemblage. |
| 11. | Also called collegium. a body of clergy living together on a foundation for religious service or similar activity. |
| 12. | British Slang. a prison. |
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Paper Definition–noun | 1. | a substance made from wood pulp, rags, straw, or other fibrous material, usually in thin sheets, used to bear writing or printing, for wrapping things, etc. |
| 2. | a piece, sheet, or leaf of this. |
| 3. | something resembling this substance, as papyrus. |
| 4. | a written or printed document or the like. |
| 5. | stationery; writing paper. |
| 6. | a newspaper or journal. |
| 7. | an essay, article, or dissertation on a particular topic: a paper on early Mayan artifacts. |
| 8. | Often, papers. a document establishing or verifying identity, status, or the like: citizenship papers. |
| 9. | negotiable notes, bills, etc., as commercial paper or paper money: Only silver, please, no paper. |
| 14. | a sheet or card of paper with pins or needles stuck through it in rows. |
| 15. | a set of questions for an examination, an individual set of written answers to them, or any written piece of schoolwork. |
| 16. | Slang. a free pass to an entertainment. |
–verb (used with object) | 17. | to cover with wallpaper or apply wallpaper to: They papered the bedroom last summer. |
| 18. | to line or cover with paper. |
| 19. | to distribute handbills, posters, etc., throughout: to paper a neighborhood with campaign literature. |
| 20. | to fold, enclose, or wrap in paper. |
| 22. | Informal. to deluge with documents, esp. those requiring one to comply with certain technical procedures, as a means of legal harassment: He papered the plaintiff to force a settlement. |
| 23. | Slang. to fill (a theater or the like) with spectators by giving away free tickets or passes. |
| 24. | Archaic. | a. | to write or set down on paper. |
| b. | to describe
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–verb (used without object) | 25. | to apply wallpaper to walls. |
–adjective | 26. | made of paper or paperlike material: a paper bag. |
| 27. | paperlike; thin, flimsy, or frail. |
| 28. | of, pertaining to, or noting routine clerical duties. |
| 29. | pertaining to or carried on by means of letters, articles, books, etc.: a paper war. |
| 30. | written or printed on paper. |
| 31. | existing in theory or principle only and not in reality: paper profits. |
| 32. | indicating the first event of a series, as a wedding anniversary. |
| 33. | Slang. including many patrons admitted on free passes, as an audience for a theatrical performance: It's a paper house tonight. |
—Verb phrase| 34. | paper over, to patch up or attempt to conceal (a difference, disagreement, etc.) so as to preserve a friendship, present a unified opinion, etc.: to paper over a dispute. |
—Idiom| 35. | on paper, | a. | in written or printed form. |
| b. | in theory rather than in practice. |
| c. | existing only in a preliminary state; in a plan or design: The university building program is still only on paper. |
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