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comparative more collegiate, superlative most collegiate
Of, or relating to a college, or college students. examples
Collegial. examples
(historical, Russian Empire) Of or relating to a collegium. quotations
To what happy man did this secluded nook belong? To Andrey Ivanovitch Tyentyetnikov, a landowner of the Tremalahansky district, a young unmarried man of thirty-three, by rank a collegiate secretary.
1922 , Constance Garnett, transl., Dead Souls, translation of Мёртвые души by Nikolai Gogol, Book Two, Chapter I
plural collegiates
(Canada) A high school. examples
(obsolete) A member of a college, a collegian; someone who has received a college education.
(obsolete) A fellow-collegian; a colleague. quotations
those tables of artificial sines and tangents, not long since set out by mine old collegiate, good friend, and late fellow-student of Christ Church in Oxford, Mr. Edmund Gunter […].
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, partition II, section 2, member 4
(slang) An inmate of a prison.