coll-
variant of collo- before a vowel.
coll-
1 American
coll.
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American
abbreviation
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collateral.
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collect.
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collection.
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collective.
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collector.
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college.
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collegiate.
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colloquial.
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(in prescriptions) an eyewash.
Etymology
Origin of coll.
Latin collȳrium
Example Sentences
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These papers were afterwards coll. and pub. in the 4 vols. of Short Studies on Great Subjects.
From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. (John William) Cousin
His later poems included various Odes in celebration of national events, some of which were coll. in Under the Willows, The Cathedral, and Heartsease and Rue.
From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. (John William) Cousin
Ha'n't, hānt, a coll. contr. for have not or has not.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
When I came I found nobody with him but Mr Collins, of Magdalen coll., whom he had also invited.”
From Springtime and Other Essays by Sir Francis Darwin
His coll. works appeared in 1803, and another ed. by Prof. Street in 1875.
From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. (John William) Cousin
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