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college
verbs
go to (a) college
• After university I went to drama college for a year.
attend (a) college
formal
• He was the first person in his family to attend college.
finish (at) college
• What are you going to do when you finish art college?
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + college
an art/music/drama college
• The Music College was founded in 1869.
an agricultural/secretarial/technical etc college
• I wanted a job in farm management so I went to agricultural college.
a teacher training college
(= where you learn to be a teacher )
a military college
(= where you learn to be an officer in the army )
a Further Education/FE college
British English (= where adults can go to study, especially part-time )
a tutorial college
British English (= where you can have private or small group lessons )
a sixth form college
British English (= where students in Britain can go at 16, instead of a school )
nouns
a college student/teacher/lecturer
• a sixth-form college student
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noun ADJ. community, local | sixth form, tertiary | tutorial | university | agricultural, art, FE/further education, military, music, police, secretarial, teacher training, technical, theological, veterinary, etc. VERB + COLLEGE attend, go to | finish, graduate from COLLEGE + NOUN lecturer, principal, teacher | staff | student | course | chapel, library, room PREP. at ~ She's at college in Swindon. | in ~ Not all the lecturers are in college at any one time. PHRASES a college of (further/higher) education
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