English > university: 3 senses > noun 2, artifact| Meaning | establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching. |
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| Category of | red-brick, redbrick | Of or relating to British universities founded in the late 19th century or the 20th century |
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| Instances | Brown University, Brown | A university in Rhode Island |
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| Cambridge University, Cambridge | A university in England |
| Carnegie Mellon University | An engineering university in Pittsburgh |
| Columbia University, Columbia | A university in New York City |
| Cooper Union, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art | university founded in 1859 by Peter Cooper to offer free courses in the arts and sciences |
| Cornell University | A university in Ithaca, New York |
| Duke University | A university in Durham, North Carolina |
| Harvard University, Harvard | A university in Massachusetts |
| Johns Hopkins | A university in Baltimore |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT | An engineering university in Cambridge |
| Ohio State University | A university in Columbus, Ohio |
| Oxford University, Oxford | A university in England |
| Paris University, University of Paris, Sorbonne | A university in Paris |
| Princeton University, Princeton | A university in New Jersey |
| Stanford University, Stanford | A university in California |
| University of California at Berkeley | A university in Berkeley, California |
| University of Chicago | A university in Chicago, Illinois |
| University of Michigan | A university in Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| University of Nebraska | A university in Lincoln, Nebraska |
| University of North Carolina | A university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
| University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Penn | A university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| University of Pittsburgh | A university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| University of Sussex, Sussex University | A red-brick university in Brighton, England |
| University of Texas | A university in Austin, Texas |
| University of Vermont | A university in Burlington, Vermont |
| University of Washington | A university in Seattle, Washington |
| University of West Virginia | A university in Morgantown, West Virginia |
| University of Wisconsin | A university in Madison, Wisconsin |
| Yale University, Yale | A university in Connecticut |
| Narrower | Oxbridge | general term for an ancient and prestigious and privileged university (especially Oxford University or Cambridge University) |
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| city university | An urban university in a large city |
| redbrick university | (British informal) a provincial British university of relatively recent founding |
| Broader | establishment | A public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence |
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| Spanish | universidad |
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| Catalan | universitat |
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