collegiate institute

American  

noun

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

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collegiate institute British  

noun

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

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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

In consequence of these changes we shall hereafter be deprived of your valuable assistance in the collegiate institute.

From A Man of Honor by Eggleston, George Cary

The collegiate institute and provincial normal school add to its educational importance.

From Canada West by Canada. Dept. of the interior

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

Oberlin College, which began as a collegiate institute in 1833, was in 1850 chartered as a college.

From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman