collegiate institute

American  

noun

1. (in Canada) a fully accredited high school teaching academic subjects under the supervision of a provincial government.

---

collegiate institute British  

noun

1. (in certain provinces) a large secondary school with an academic, rather than vocational, emphasis

---

Example Sentences

He knew next to nobody in or about Philadelphia outside the precincts of the collegiate institute, and to hunt up acquaintances inside that institution was naturally enough not exactly to his taste.

From A Man of Honor by Eggleston, George Cary

President Currier, of the collegiate institute, had a daughter, Miss Nellie, who wanted to study Latin more than anything else in the world.

From A Man of Honor by Eggleston, George Cary

Arriving in Philadelphia about nine o'clock the next day, Mr. Billy ate a hasty breakfast and proceeded to the little collegiate institute in which Robert had once been a professor, as the reader will remember.

From A Man of Honor by Eggleston, George Cary

It was incorporated in the rules of every collegiate institute, and more especially those two most notable ones of Oxford and Cambridge.

From Purgatory by Sadlier, Mrs. James

It is the oldest collegiate institute in the State, having been chartered in 1833, and was designed from the outset for both sexes.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady