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

Born July 21, 1926, in Toronto to shopkeepers, Jewison studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music and Malvern Collegiate Institute in Toronto before serving in the Canadian navy during World War II. While on a 60-day leave, he hitchhiked around the southern United States during the Jim Crow era, witnessing segregation up close for the first time.

From Los Angeles Times

Johanson, who was a registered nurse, opened one of Toronto's first birth control clinics in 1970 at her daughter's high school, Don Mills Collegiate Institute.

From BBC

The training school would merge with Cookman Institute of Jacksonville, Fla., in 1923, to become the Daytona-Cookman Collegiate Institute, which in 1931 was renamed Bethune-Cookman College.

From Washington Post

The party also helped establish the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute, later renamed Virginia State University.

From Washington Times

In Institute, Katherine’s older siblings, and then Katherine, attended the high school associated with the West Virginia Collegiate Institute, a historically black institution that became West Virginia State College and is now West Virginia State University.

From New York Times