collegiann.adj.
/kəˈliːdʒ(ɪ)ən/ A. n.
1.
a. A member or inmate of a college; one who is receiving, or has received, a college education, a student; also spec. one who is on the ‘foundation’ of a college, a ‘colleger’.
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society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun]
scholara1400
studentc1450
collegian?1462
colligionist1570
velvet-cap1602
college-man1611
collegiate1616
matriculate1712
trencher-cap1721
collegianer1818
bursch1830
matriculator1850
matriculant1860
stude1907
Joe College1932
matriculand1954
?1462 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 99 A college of vij monkes or prestes, havyng a certeyn pension..withowt any charge..to be bore be þe seyd colegians.
1583 T. Stocker tr. Tragicall Hist. Ciuile Warres Lowe Countries ii. 44 a All swornemen, Brotherhoods, and Collegiannes likewise.
1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse iv. sig. E4 Bacchus is a wise Collegian, who admits meriment.
1730 J. Swift Betty the Grizette Picking wit among collegians, In the play-house upper regions.
1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. liv. 229 I..will not descend to answer the little sneering sophistries of a collegian.
1875 C. Merivale Gen. Hist. Rome lxv. 527 The discussions of the learned collegians of the Museum.
b. One who is on the side of a college; a college partizan.
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1697 Blair in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Colonial Church: Virginia (1870) I. 19 All the Governors friends employ their utmost interest to keep out any one that is a friend to the College..‘if you choose such a one’ say they ‘he is a Collegian and we shall have a tax for the College’.
2. slang. An inmate of a prison. Cf. college n. 8.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun]
prisona1225
prisonerc1384
enpresonéc1425
bird1580
warder1584
canary bird1593
penitentiala1633
convict1786
chum1819
lag1819
lagger1819
new chum1819
nut-brown1835
collegian1837
canary1840
Sydney duck1873
forty1879
zebra1882
con1893
yardbird1956
zek1968
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xliii. 472 They've been most infernally blown up by the collegians [in the Fleet].
1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. vi. 47 Letters..enclosing half-a-crown..for the Father of the Marshalsea. ‘With the compliments of a collegian taking leave’.
3. One of a sect founded in Holland in 1619.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > Collegian > [noun]
collegian1728
collegiant1764
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Collegians, a Religious Sect..so called, because of their Colleges, or Meetings.
1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. at Collegian One of a religious sect..called collegiani, collegians, and collegiants, on account of their colleges or weekly meetings.
B. adj.
= collegial adj.
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society > education > place of education > college or university > [adjective] > college
collegiate1564
collegial1603
collegian1660
parietal1836
in-college1845
parietary1881
1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos i. 2 To crawl and creep about a while in some Collegian Cells.
1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 105 Some of the collegian prisoners..have women and little children with them.
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